elvis on aterm : Utterly weird behaviour
 

I just recently installed Slack 10.1. Usualy I prefer to use vim but elvis is default vi
clone onslack, so I gave it a shot last couple of days. Well I installed aterm and
used...well tried to use elvis on it. It got reeeeally funky!

Not even the basic stuff works, like h j k l movement commands, they just
keep outputingsome garbage. The weirdest thing is that vim works perfeclty
on aterm, and elvis does not have any problems on gnome-terminal, xterm,
Konsole or rxvt.

It's really not a big deal since I have plenty alternatives and don't like elvis
anyway but... did anyone else notice this problem?

Is there a terminfo entry for aterm on your system? If there isn't, try TERM=xterm-color elvis. If this works you could set up an alias so when you run "elvis" you're actually running "TERM=xterm-color elvis" (alias elvis='TERM=xterm-color elvis' in ~/.bashrc).


Håkan

hw-tph,

i see what you are saying: there is no a terminfo entry for aterm, and that's why elvis (and probably some other apps that i don't even know about) are acting up.

your solution works for elvis, but i would be much safer if i make terminfo entry for aterm, just in case other apps start complaining.

ok, now how should i go about updating my terminfo with aterm entry? i couldn't google up anything useful.

Install vim. elvis should have left the building. :)