Re: Ongoing vi issues under NetBSD-7 on the RPi ....

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 04/04/15 09:06, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <551FECAC.1060701%hiwaay.net@localhost>,
> William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:
> > .... I am having ongoing problems using vi under NetBSD-7 on my RPi. The
> > problems are not as severe as before (crashing my ssh login, including
> > the rxvt terminal window on the remote box (!!!!!)), but are irritating.
> > When paging down, I often get artifacts from previous text interleaved
> > in the program source I am viewing. A 'ctrl-l' clears everything up, but
> > is inconvenient & raises trust issues w/ how the combo of
> > vi/NetBSD-7/rxvt/FreeBSD 9.3R is working together to process text. I am
> > not planning any heavy developement on this box, but this is still
> > irritating, since I use vi on various config files, etc. I haven't
> > detected any problems w/ the results so far, for the record, but am
> > still antsy about it .... TIA & keep up the good work ....
> Perhaps $TERM is not setup properly? What is it on your machine?
>
> christos

rpi # set
BLOCKSIZE=1k
ENV=/root/.shrc
HISTSIZE=100
HOME=/root
HOST=rpi
IFS='
'
LC_ALL=C
LOGNAME=root
OLDPWD=/root
OPTIND=1
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/X11R7/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
PKG_PATH='ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/evbarm/7.0/All;ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/evbarm/6.0/All'
PS1='rpi # '
PS2='rpi > '
PS4='rpi + '
PWD=/etc
SHELL=/bin/sh
SU_FROM=wam
TERM=xterm
USER=root
_=date
rpi #

& on the remote box:

[root@kabini1, /etc, 9:31:56pm] 367 % set
_       cat resolv.conf

addsuffix
anyerror
argv    ()
autoexpand
autorehash
csubstnonl
cwd     /etc
dirstack        /etc
dunique
echo_style      bsd
edit
euid    0
euser   root
fignore (.o .obj .u)
filec
gid     0
group   wheel
histdup prev
history 1000
home    /root
killring        30
loginsh
mail    /var/mail/root
owd     /root
path    (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin 
/usr/local/bin /root/bin)
prompt  %B%{\e]2\;%n@%m %l %~%#^g\e]1\;%n@%m^g\r%}[%n@%m, %c, %p] ! %% %b
prompt2 %R?
prompt3 CORRECT>%R (y|n|e|a)?
savehist        (300 merge)
shell   /bin/csh
shlvl   1
status  0
tcsh    6.18.01
term    xterm
time    (10  whew !!!! that took (%U cpu + %S sys) sec., %E elapsed time 
tot, %P CPU efficiency
        (%X text, %D data, %M max) KB, (%I+%O) io, %F pfs + %W swaps)
tty     pts/8
uid     0
user    root
version tcsh 6.18.01 (Astron) 2012-02-14 (x86_64-amd-FreeBSD) options 
wide,nls,dl,al,kan,sm,rh,color,filec
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[root@kabini1, /etc, 9:26:28am] 368 %

I am ssh-ing through an rxvt/tcsh shell on the remote (FreeBSD 9.3R) 
box, either as root or as regular user then su-ing to root, same output 
in both cases ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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