Bug#981511: reportbug: Probably wrong terminal type
> * What led up to the situation?
> My EDITOR is set to 'vi', but when launching the editor from inside
> reportbug, it doesn't correctly clear lines on scrolling, so that
> any text from a previous longer line is still visible.
> This makes editing nearly impossible.
> Unlike I wrote in the subject, the terminal type seems still to
> be correct (at least when I start a shell from inside the editor
> it shows the correct value 'xterm').
>
> Actually I just found that after returning from the shell,
> vi behaves fine, just the original vi invocation is wrong.
> With this workaround it might just be 'minor'.
Sorry, but i have no idea what you're trying to say here? what's the
actual problem, in concrete terms, maybe even with an example?
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