Re: Possible bug in linux entry (version 10.2.1, 2002/01/02)

[Thomas Dickey]

I suppose so... I'm aware of the issue, having addressed it for xterm:

               Patch #67 - 1998/2/23 - XFree86 3.9Ad and 3.3.1e
     * remove   ich   and   ich1   from  xterm  and  xterm-8bit  terminfo
       descriptions.  SVr4  terminfo  documents that you must not combine
       these  with  smir/rmir,  but  ncurses  allows  it, opening a hole.
       Solaris  2.6  vi  does not work properly if it is using a terminfo
       description  when  these  are  combined,  since  it was written to
       accommodate  old  terminals  that required it (reported by Stephen
       Marley).

But I'm curious - are you running on the linux console to a BSD system?
It's not a new thing - the smir/rmir stuff has been there at least 6 years.

On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 05:29:22PM -0700, david parsons wrote:
> ich doesn't work correctly inside smir/rmir.   Here's a diff to disable
> smir/rmir (this makes Berkeley vi work properly)

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