>> It's probably because you're not using the same terminal
>> type as identified in your TERM environment variable.
>
>Actually, for whatever reason this is the result when you install
>RH6.2 and "Gnome Workstation". I have two such installations
>that do exactly this out of the box. Fire up a terminal, use
>"vi", quit, and there's a "c" next to your shell prompt.
Hmmm. OK, then here's another shot in the dark: does that
version of vi try to enable/disable Xterm mouse support during
the time it's active in an Xterm?
In the end you might have to use something like "script"
to capture everything vi writes to the tty and then have a
look at the last things it wrote to see if you can identify
some troublesome escape sequence and maybe deduce from
that what vi THINKS it's trying to accomplish. A list
of possible culprits would include (1) a botched $TERM,
(2) a misconfigured vi, (3) a botched termcap/terminfo
entry, (4) a vi bug, (5) a termcap/terminfo/termlib bug.
If you determine that it's either of the first two you can
just say some bad words, fix the goof and be on your way;
fixing the third could be a pain, and the fixing either
of the last two would probably qualify as real-live WORK.
Here's hoping it's one of the first two. Since I'm running
a 3- or 4-year old Caldera distribution whose vi doesn't
exhibit the bug in question I regret that I can't share
this particular experience with you any more closely. ;->
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