Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Re: Problem using vim in csh on linux

On 2015-10-20, Lowell Specht wrote:
> I'm new to linux. I have used unix for decades. We are moving to
> redhat linux servers at work and I'm trying to use vi but have a
> problem with the vi window refresh. When the file first opens,
> all looks good. As I page back and forth, the file starts to look
> corrupted but is really just that the window is not fully
> refreshed, I think.
>
> I tried vim with the same result as vi though I think when I
> launch vi, it is aliased to vim. My default shell is csh. Today,
> on a whim, I switched my current shell to ksh and tried vi/vim and
> it works perfectly.
>
> How can I get vi/vim to work properly in csh on linux?
> Please, no responses telling me to use ksh, instead of csh or a
> different editor unless it is just vi by another name. Thanks.

I don't normally use csh, but it is installed on one of the systems
I use. I executed csh in an xterm on a Fedora 17 system, then ran
vim. I tried a number of editing operations and never saw any
screen corruption.

It might help if you started vim as

$ vim -N -u NONE

and could give us some minimal sequence of steps that demonstrate
the problem.

Following the suggestions from Tony and Tim would be good, too.

Regards,
Gary

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