After starting to use Arch I switched to xterm and urxvt terminal and enjoyed the flexibility of them (esp. scaleHeight resource). However, I don’t understand why sometimes configs work with Xterm and sometimes with xterm or XTerm (lower vs upper case x and t).
I have tested this with both Ubuntu 12.04 and Debian 7. When I do
If I launch xterm with its default bitmap fonts and then select the ‘Large’ font from the ‘VT Fonts’ menu (via ctrl+right mouse), I get a very usable bitmap font with apparently good Japanese character support.
I use xterm (X-Win32 2012 Build 30 from StarNet Communications Corp) to login from a Windows 7 PC to a Red Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6).
Resources in the network (1, 2, 3) claim that some key
combinations, among which Ctrl-Shift-letter, Ctrl-number,
Ctrl-i/Tab, Ctrl-m/Enter,
Esc/Ctrl-[, cannot be mapped reliably in Vim because the
terminal does not distinguish them from their unmodified counterparts (more
background in this Gilles’ answer and this ASCII table article). As
a concrete example, the maps