Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Re: Weird cursors behaviour when using vim in terminal in insert mode

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El 29 May 2012, a las 20:05, Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com> escribió:

> On 2012-05-29, Pablo Giménez wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> I have an issue using vim in the termninal.
>> Every time I go to Indert mode and try to sue the cursor it just
>> begging to write the letter A,B,C,D and creates a new line.
>> I have been digging and seems it is because of the internal definition
>> of the termcap in Vim.
>> So I tried the next:
>> set term=builtin_ansi
>>
>> But then it is messing up the colors.
>> The term is xterm-256color by default.
>> Is there ane way to get the cursors working properly without changing
>> the termn, or using the xterm terminal?
>> I forgot to say I am using latest vim 7.3.
>
> The value of $TERM needs to be appropriate for the terminal you are
> actually using.
>
> Vim uses $TERM to determine the terminal's capabilities and escape
> sequences from your system's terminfo or termcap database. If the
> value of $TERM is not correct, then Vim may obtain an incorrect
> description of your arrow keys.
>
> What is the terminal you are using and what is the value of $TERM?
I am using gnome terminal and xterm, for both TERM is set to xterm-256color
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>
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