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incertia

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[SOLVED] sudo vim broken on urxvt

When running the command sudo vim, I am automatically taken into insert mode with the following text:

:dddd/0000/0000/0000[>85;95;0c

I cannot reproduce this on any other terminal emulator.

Last edited by incertia (2015-07-27 22:01:20)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] sudo vim broken on urxvt

Post your .vimrc & .Xresources/.Xdefaults

Does this also happen if you `su` to root and then run vim from rxvt-unicode?

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Re: [SOLVED] sudo vim broken on urxvt

I bet this might be relevant.

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incertia

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Re: [SOLVED] sudo vim broken on urxvt

I bet this might be relevant.

Yep. Disabling the background color in ~/.Xresources and then re-enabling it fixes the problem.