Make Vi Work on IBM i

Have you SSHed into your IBM i and tried to edit a file with vi only to be greeted with this?

The default TERM for IBM i is currently set to xterm-256color. You can test this by typing echo $TERM:

Solution

To fix this, simply define your terminal to the proper value, usually just xterm.

export TERM=xterm

You can set it in your dotfiles (.bashrc for example), like I do in my dotfiles.

Vi should work just fine now!

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