Weird problem in xvile - I can't enter a '>' character

[Chris Green]

I don't use xvile all that much, I use vile in a terminal window most
of the time, however I do sometimes find I need to use xvile.

I've just found that the > character doesn't work in xvile.  This
seems to be the same on both version 9.8v and 9.8y running on two
different xubuntu systems.

The > character works fine everwhere else, in vile, in the terminal
window, in browser windows, etc.

I've tried changing font selection but that didn't help.

I *can* enter a > by typing x3e.

Any ideas how to diagnose this?

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Chris Green