I think it's a problem with the way Xterms display certain characters...
that's always sitting at the end of the file in vi (did you try typing stuff
in vi?), but if you cat the file, it doesn't show up. It also doesn't show
up in nxterm or kvt or konsole or any of the other terminal emulators. So
my guess is that vi puts a special character in to mark the end of the file,
which the xterm displays in that odd way. It causes no problems; it just
looks a little funny.
On my computer, at least, it happens to every user, not just root.
-Matt Stegman
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----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Flippin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 1:49 AM
Subject: [newbie] Terminal woes
> I'm having a bit of trouble with vi. If I start vi as root, it works
> flawlessly, as a normal user, however, I get "<ESC>[91m~" as the first
> line. Does anyone know where this comes from? It seems to affect every
> xwindows type terminal.
