Thanks... this was the issue.
Setting the term value in the .vimrc file fixed the issue.
Later, ajTreece
On Oct 11, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Tim Chase wrote:
I had a disk failure and recovered from a backup, BUT... something
is missing.
Now whenever I vim a file I can see the control characters in the
text file. Here's what I see in my .cshrc file:
[33mumask 022
These go away if I comment out the 'syntax on' in my .vimrc file,
but what's the deal? What am I missing?
It looks like your term settings are wonky. Vim is doing syntax
coloring by sending VT-100 escape sequences to your terminal, but
your terminal isn't properly handling them.
Check your $TERM setting in your shell:
bash> echo $TERM
and what vim thinks your term setting is:
:set term?
My guess is that they don't jive, and that most likely, you'll see
the same symptom in other colorizing console apps. Or, your vimrc
is manually specifying what the 'term' should be and overriding
whatever vim finds in the environment. If you're not manually
specifying your 'term' setting in your vimrc, then it's likely a
problem with configuration of the $TERM in which vim is running.
-tim
