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Re: Bad XTerm Vim coloring
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote:
I'd expect that vim is asking xterm for the strings that correspond to
different function-keys. In ctlseqs.txt this text covers the response:
...reading vim's source code (7.1 at hand...), there doesn't seem to be an
obvious way to turn off the feature (the "+termresponse").
However, it seems that vim is only asking for this information when it is
not finding the details it wants in the _termcap_ (and since vim is
apparently using terminfo, which gives an empty buffer, it'll always ask
for the information).
Cygwin's xterm package (doing a strings on the binary) appears to be
linked with termcap - but if it cannot find a termcap, it'll fallback to
something possibly incomplete or inaccurate. (I'm not sure what that
would be, but was interested to note that the strings on xterm showed
there's a termcap for "cygwin";-).
Just in case it means anything here is the vim configure options:
:version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Oct 9 2008 15:23:22)
...
+tag_old_static -tag_any_white -tcl +terminfo +termresponse
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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