>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
>It could also be a bug in gnome-terminal.
Absolutely - I realized as soon as I sent that message that I'd
forgotten to mention that the terminal emulator itself could be
to blame, though I wasn't aware that GNOME didn't just use good
old Xterm.
> The GNOME suite is pretty neat (I use it myself), but it isn't
> exactly what I would call "highly robust". Especially since Red
> Hat has a tendency to include things before they're quite ready
> for prime time [1]...
>
> Anyway, have you tried using an alternate terminal program, such
> as good old fashioned xterm?
A fine suggestion, and very easy to test - just say "xterm" from a
shell running within whatever terminal emulator you're seeing the
problem in, and then start&exit vi from within that Xterm window.
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