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Re: vi on remote machine

Subject: Re: vi on remote machine
From: Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:49:36 -0400

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 1:24 PM, David L Chopp <email@hidden> 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.

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