On Thu, Mar/19/2009 12:54:04PM, Micah Cowan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Micah Cowan wrote: > > Ethan Mallove wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar/18/2009 01:39:03PM, Micah Cowan wrote: > >> Ethan Mallove wrote: > >>>>> Hello, > >>>>> > >>>>> The below command causes my Screen window to close: > >>>>> > >>>>> $ touch a b c && ls -1 a b c | xargs vim > >>>>> Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal > >>>>> [then Screen window closes!] > >> FWIW, I can't produce this with Ubuntu's version of screen 4.0.3jw4 and > >> vim 7.1. However, after exiting vim, the terminal window is left in a > >> strange state (CR is no longer echoed locally, at least). > > > >> Is it only the screen window that closes, or the whole session? > > > >>> Just one Screen window closes. The whole session survives. > > > > This pretty much guarantees that it's not (directly) a screen problem, > > then. Since both vim and the shell are brought down (the window wouldn't > > close unless the shell had exited), this may indicate a bug in the > > shell's piping code, maybe? > > > > The fact remains that this only happens within screen. What happens: > > (a) if you export TERM=screen while NOT running within screen, and > > attempt that command.
No problem outside of Screen with either setting. $ echo $TERM xterm-color $ touch a b c && ls -1 a b c | xargs vim Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal 3 files to edit $ setenv TERM screen $ touch a b c && ls -1 a b c | xargs vim Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal 3 files to edit $ echo $status 0 > > (b) if you export TERM=(whatever's normal for your terminal outside > > screen) while running _inside_ screen, and attempt that command. > > ? What should I set TERM to here? I tried setting TERM to "screen" and "xterm-color". Same problem with both. > > It'd also be very useful to know what exit statuses were returned by > both vim and tcsh, but I'm not sure of the best way to get at those. I don't know how I could check this since the Screen window is closing before I get a chance to do "echo $status". > > Your tcsh doesn't happen to provide an xargs as a builtin by any chance, > does it? No. I am not sure what version of xargs it is either. It is part of the SUNWcsu (Core Solaris) package on my Solaris 10 system. -Ethan > > - -- > Micah J. Cowan > Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. > Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq > http://micah.cowan.name/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAknCotwACgkQ7M8hyUobTrE8pQCbBmOYCVKF/EU9q1F9cTea7L9Y > vfsAnAz4LOfD1NYwsOzk7NpTy9znJnvj > =xvjq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
