gnome-terminal 2.18 display problem

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Bob Finch <bob at nas.com>
> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:06:37 -0700
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> 
> Since upgrading to 2.18, gnome-terminal has a display problem that
> causes problems with vi and other screen oriented applications.
> 
> To reproduce, vi a file with more lines than the gnome-terminal
> window and delete the first line.  The screen appears unchanged except
> the next line of the file is displayed on the last line (which would
> normally be blank).  Refreshing with ^L fixes the display.
> 
> Anyone else have this problem?  Before filing a bug with gnome, I
> thought I'd see if its my build.
> 
> TERM is set to xterm and I'm using the standard FreeBSD termcap file.
> I upgraded via "portupgrade -a" from gnome 2.16.0.  I've been testing
> with a 24 line gnome-terminal window, but it appears to fail with
> other window sizes.
> 
> After deleting the line, vi sends:
> 
> ESC[H        (move to top)
> ESC[23B      (move to last line)
> ^J           (scroll up since we're on the last line)
> ESC[A        (move up one line)
> display next line of file
> 
> In gnome-terminal 2.18, the ESC[A appears to roll the scroll region
> down one line leaving the cursor where it was instead of moving the
> cursor up one line.

I am seeing the same issue. This is the second problem I have had with
gnome-terminal in 2.18. (See prior messages today.) I have no idea
whether they are related.
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