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

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <551FF533.7030202%hiwaay.net@localhost>,
William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:
>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?

Xmm, can you also try a plain xterm (not that I think it could make a
difference)... Also can you describe what's going on? Is vi core-dumping?
Is it displaying the screen improperly? Are there any error messages?

christos