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>   1. vi on remote machine (David L Chopp)
>   2. Re: vi on remote machine (Egan Ford)
>   3. Re: vi on remote machine (Egan Ford)
>   4. Re: vi on remote machine (David L Chopp)
>   5. Re: vi on remote machine (Tom Lane)
>   6. Re: vi on remote machine (David L Chopp)
>   7. Re: vi on remote machine (Brandon Allbery)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:34:38 +0000
> From: David L Chopp <[email protected]>
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: vi on remote machine
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> Hi,
> 
> I’ve noticed recently, and it was before the most recent X11 update, that 
> when I use an xterm window on my mac, do a remote login to a Ubuntu linux 
> machine and then run vi on that machine, the screen doesn’t refresh properly. 
>  For example, if I scroll down by more than one line, e.g. using ctrl-f, I 
> get an overlay of the first screen and the new screen.  I don’t have this 
> problem using the OS X terminal app, so I’m guessing there’s something fishy 
> with the X11 app?
> 
> Dave
> 
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> Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of
> algorithms.  ~Carl Boyer
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> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 08:39:34 -0600
> From: Egan Ford <[email protected]>
> To: David L Chopp <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: vi on remote machine
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> I've seen this as well, but not limited to X11.  If the target Ubuntu
> machine has vi, no problems, if vim, then a problem.  My current hack
> is to export LANG=C.  I have not had time to find root cause.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 8:34 AM, David L Chopp <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I’ve noticed recently, and it was before the most recent X11 update, that
>> when I use an xterm window on my mac, do a remote login to a Ubuntu linux
>> machine and then run vi on that machine, the screen doesn’t refresh
>> properly.  For example, if I scroll down by more than one line, e.g. using
>> ctrl-f, I get an overlay of the first screen and the new screen.  I don’t
>> have this problem using the OS X terminal app, so I’m guessing there’s
>> something fishy with the X11 app?
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of
>> algorithms.  ~Carl Boyer
>> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 08:40:27 -0600
> From: Egan Ford <[email protected]>
> To: David L Chopp <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: vi on remote machine
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> I should have been more clear, export LANG=C on the Ubuntu machine.
> This also happens with newer Debian machines as well IIRC.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Egan Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I've seen this as well, but not limited to X11.  If the target Ubuntu
>> machine has vi, no problems, if vim, then a problem.  My current hack
>> is to export LANG=C.  I have not had time to find root cause.
>> 
>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 8:34 AM, David L Chopp <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I’ve noticed recently, and it was before the most recent X11 update, that
>>> when I use an xterm window on my mac, do a remote login to a Ubuntu linux
>>> machine and then run vi on that machine, the screen doesn’t refresh
>>> properly.  For example, if I scroll down by more than one line, e.g. using
>>> ctrl-f, I get an overlay of the first screen and the new screen.  I don’t
>>> have this problem using the OS X terminal app, so I’m guessing there’s
>>> something fishy with the X11 app?
>>> 
>>> Dave
>>> 
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of
>>> algorithms.  ~Carl Boyer
>>> 
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:49:56 +0000
> From: David L Chopp <[email protected]>
> To: Egan Ford <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: vi on remote machine
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> Thanks for that and for such a quick response.  Looks like it turns off 
> localization.  That’s consistent with the fact that I always have to switch 
> on UTF-8 encoding in order to read the error messages from the compiler on 
> the Ubuntu machine as well.
> 
> On Jun 12, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Egan Ford 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> I should have been more clear, export LANG=C on the Ubuntu machine.
> This also happens with newer Debian machines as well IIRC.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Egan Ford 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I've seen this as well, but not limited to X11.  If the target Ubuntu
> machine has vi, no problems, if vim, then a problem.  My current hack
> is to export LANG=C.  I have not had time to find root cause.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 8:34 AM, David L Chopp 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’ve noticed recently, and it was before the most recent X11 update, that
> when I use an xterm window on my mac, do a remote login to a Ubuntu linux
> machine and then run vi on that machine, the screen doesn’t refresh
> properly.  For example, if I scroll down by more than one line, e.g. using
> ctrl-f, I get an overlay of the first screen and the new screen.  I don’t
> have this problem using the OS X terminal app, so I’m guessing there’s
> something fishy with the X11 app?
> 
> Dave
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of
> algorithms.  ~Carl Boyer
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> ~Alfred North Whitehead
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> David Chopp
> Chair
> Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
> Northwestern University
> E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:21:59 -0400
> From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
> To: David L Chopp <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: vi on remote machine
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> David L Chopp <[email protected]> writes:
>> I’ve noticed recently, and it was before the most recent X11 update, that 
>> when I use an xterm window on my mac, do a remote login to a Ubuntu linux 
>> machine and then run vi on that machine, the screen doesn’t refresh 
>> properly.  For example, if I scroll down by more than one line, e.g. using 
>> ctrl-f, I get an overlay of the first screen and the new screen.  I don’t 
>> have this problem using the OS X terminal app, so I’m guessing there’s 
>> something fishy with the X11 app?
> 
> Might be worth checking what TERM is set to on the remote side.  I've
> had few problems using TERM=xterm.  (I avoid vi, though.)
> 
> A different line of thought is that your Mac-local xterm has a different
> notion of what the character set encoding is than the remote vi does.
> This would only matter when non-ASCII characters are in view.
> 
>                       regards, tom lane
> 
> 
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 17:24:57 +0000
> From: David L Chopp <[email protected]>
> To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: vi on remote machine
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
> I do have TERM=xterm on the remote machine.  What do you use instead?  I 
> think the character encoding is part of it, setting LANG=C solves the problem 
> for example.
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Jun 12, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Tom Lane 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> David L Chopp <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> writes:
> I’ve noticed recently, and it was before the most recent X11 update, that 
> when I use an xterm window on my mac, do a remote login to a Ubuntu linux 
> machine and then run vi on that machine, the screen doesn’t refresh properly. 
>  For example, if I scroll down by more than one line, e.g. using ctrl-f, I 
> get an overlay of the first screen and the new screen.  I don’t have this 
> problem using the OS X terminal app, so I’m guessing there’s something fishy 
> with the X11 app?
> 
> Might be worth checking what TERM is set to on the remote side.  I've
> had few problems using TERM=xterm.  (I avoid vi, though.)
> 
> A different line of thought is that your Mac-local xterm has a different
> notion of what the character set encoding is than the remote vi does.
> This would only matter when non-ASCII characters are in view.
> 
> regards, tom lane
> 
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> 
> I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows
> for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.... ~Stendhal
> 
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> David Chopp
> Chair
> Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
> Northwestern University
> E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> Phone: (847)-491-8391
> Fax: (847)-491-2178
> Homepage: http://people.esam.northwestern.edu/chopp
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> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:49:36 -0400
> From: Brandon Allbery <[email protected]>
> To: David L Chopp <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: vi on remote machine
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> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 1:24 PM, David L Chopp <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> I do have TERM=xterm on the remote machine.  What do you use instead?  I
>> think the character encoding is part of it, setting LANG=C solves the
>> problem for example.
> 
> 
> I think the TERM thing is related to remotes that have shell dotfiles that
> change "xterm" to "xterm-256color" or etc. (this is usually safe for Linux
> but can get you in trouble as soon as any other OS becomes involved)
> 
> LANG is its own bunch of headaches. Especially since various versions of OS
> X have weird locale processing that can leave the shell thinking LANG=C, or
> differences between locale names that cause remotes to fallback to LANG=C.
> 
> -- 
> brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates
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