1.0.7 display corruption in vi (this is a busybox bug)

[jimj]

My original post on this is here: http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?t=4714

Since 1.0.7 final uses the same version of busybox as 1.0.7a the problem is the same. When I use vi to edit a file the vi display will become corrupted. It's easiest to replicate on a large text file. Simply insert some characters and/or lines. I will usually see extra characters and or extra lines in the dislpay. If I save the file and then cat it it looks ok (i.e. the extra characters/lines are not there), so it's simply a display problem.

It looks like this is a known issue in busybox that has already been resolved, so if busybox gets updated this will be fixed. See http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=568 for more info.

From the bug report as a workaround entering a ^L redisplays the text correctly.