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From: si@socrates.hf.intel.com (Stev)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: vi behaves strangely with xterm
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.193036.15273@socrates.hf.intel.com>
Date: 16 Apr 91 19:30:36 GMT
Organization: Industrial Computing Division - Intel Corp. - Hillsboro Or.
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xterm seems to behave fine with vi when both vi and xterm are running on 
the local machine. However when I remote login to another machine from
within my xterm window, and subsequently bring up a file on the remote
machine using vi, vi seems to have a problem with the terminal type and
often behaves weirdly. I have tried settng the TERM environment variable on
the remote machine to xterm, xterms & vt100 (all three are in the terminfo
database on the remote machine), but none of them seem to solve this problem.
This behaviour is extremely frustrating since the whole point of having
multiple windows connected to different machines is lost. 
Does xterm need any specific information to solve this problem ?
Any pointers will be appreciated. Please send responses to 
Kumarr@dios.hf.intel.com.