On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Julio Merino wrote:
> Well, I may be wrong, and the problem is possibly inside termcap...
> Lets take a look to emacs21, irssi, vim... they do not show colors
> properly, and irssi behaves badly when printing some strings to
> screen (it does well in FreeBSD with cons25l1).

Try this:

  export TERM=wsvt25m; tset
  vim

It should work fine (at least on i386).

Regards,
Jared