ports/115130: csh under screen causes vi to ignore the ":" key

Andrew.P.Lentvorski at FreeBSD.org Andrew.P.Lentvorski at FreeBSD.org
Thu Aug 2 00:10:02 UTC 2007


>Number:         115130
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       csh under screen causes vi to ignore the ":" key
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 02 00:10:01 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p6
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD s0.domaindeleted.com 6.2-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p6 #0: Sat Jul 28 19:39:22 PDT 2007     root at s0.domaindeleted.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
If you start "screen", type "csh", and then start vi, it will ignore the ":" key.

This does not happen if the shell from which vi is started is sh or bash.

It also does not happen if vi is started in csh outside of screen.

I have no screenrc or .screenrc anywhere that I can find (this is a newly installed system with brand new ports).

I don't remember this being a problem before; however, I usually immediately change my root shell to /bin/sh, so I may just have missed it.

This is just plain weird.  Presumably it's a typo in a termcap or curses entry in screen somewhere.
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