Re: [screen-devel] Terminal VIM run from xargs closes my GNU Screen window

[Micah Cowan]

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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.
  (b) if you export TERM=(whatever's normal for your terminal outside
screen) while running _inside_ screen, and attempt that command.
?

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Micah J. Cowan
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