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I am attempting to SSH to a Linux (Fedora 14) machine and then open up vim to edit a file, however on my new Macbook Pro, the SSH session seems to "freeze" as soon as I open vim.

I can login fine to the Linux machine and run commands:

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However as soon as I run vim, the terminal blanks out, and does not respond to :q, ctrl+z, ctrl+c, ctrl+d, etc:

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I'm using iTerm2, but the same problem occurs in Terminal.app.

Could this have something to do with tty vs pty, or some other terminal emulation setting in OS X?

I do not have the same display problem when opening vim on the remote linux machine using Windows or other OS's. Also, I can use vim fine when connected to other remote (Linux) machines.

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Forgot to add that scp gives me the same problem – matt b Jun 8 '11 at 17:31
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closed as off topic by Gilles, random♦ Jun 8 '11 at 20:16

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