vim starts in REPLACE mode

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. runn vim
 a. built after 7.4.273
 b. on kmscon (TERM=xterm-256color)
 c. with any vimrc file including an empty vimrc (touch vimrc)

What is the expected output?
vim starting in INSERT mode
What do you see instead?
vim starts in REPLACE mode

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
see bugrepot.txt

Please provide any additional information below.
also see typescript
it was suggested on irc that this might be related to the following bug:

irc.freenode.#vim.weechatlog:2014-07-24 22:10:05  jamessan  glphvgacs: This 
looks a lot like http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/detail?id=183 which Bram 
hoped would be fixed by 7.4.207, although it doesn't appear it was.  I seem to 
recall further discussion about that, but haven't found it yet

Original issue reported on code.google.com by DarwinsK...@gmail.com on 25 Jul 2014 at 3:57

Attachments:

• bugreport.txt
• typescript

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The problem most likely is that kmscon does not behave like xterm, even though 
you tell Vim it does.  Set TERM to something more appropriate?

Original comment by brammool...@gmail.com on 26 Jul 2014 at 11:55

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that doesn't explain why builds before (not including btw) 7.4.273 have this 
problem, does it?

Original comment by DarwinsK...@gmail.com on 26 Jul 2014 at 5:13

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vim changed the 7bit/8bit handling at some point (or some library did). libtsm 
(which is the term-backend of kmscon) only sends 7bit sequences. I really need 
to fix that..

Original comment by dh.herrm...@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2014 at 2:39

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I think this has been already fixed by 7.4.389.

Original comment by ktakata6...@gmail.com on 1 Oct 2014 at 10:26

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Original comment by chrisbr...@googlemail.com on 2 Oct 2014 at 7:22

• Changed state: Fixed