FreeBSD 12.2p4: ^L in vi-mode prints as a string of literals rather than clearing the screen

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FreeBSD 12.2p4: ^L in vi-mode prints as a string of literals rather than clearing the screen

jdvlio opened this issue 4 years ago · 3 comments

The title pretty much sums it up. All I can really add is that on OpenBSD ^L behave as intended in both emacs and vi modes. On the other hand, on FreeBSD ^L behaves as described in the documentation exclusively when in emacs mode.

The FreeBSD host in question is a remote host accessed via SSH.

Answer 1 · 2021-03-03T15:12:11.000Z

I will need to look into this.

Answer 2 · 2021-03-03T22:45:38.000Z

I can confirm this, but I'll have to do some more digging a bit later.

Answer 3 · 2021-03-03T22:48:37.000Z

Discovered the issue. If you change line 25 to
#undef CTRL
and remove line 27, then ^L works in vi mode on FreeBSD.