Hi! On Thu, 01 Mar 2007, Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
> >It's somewhat hard to describe, but when typing the display appears to > >back up or stop moving, the text color looks kind of inverted, and > >characters sort of appear twice for a word or so. Backspacing and > >retying the exact same thing corrects the problem, saving and > >reopening the file also, it is purely a display problem, but highly > >irritating as I can't detect typos or read coherently. It happens > >quite frequently when typing, maybe once every couple lines. > >http://dgoodwin.dangerouslyinc.com/files/vim-problem.png > >This is just me typing "I've got" once. > > Whoa... seriously weird. Indeed. Sometimes, mismatches in encoding settings with UTF-8 being expected and latin-1 being delivered (or a myriad of three-way mismatches with screen, vim and the terminal) can cause something which looks like a strange case of "overstrike" (like on printers). This is due to the way UTF-8 and similar multibyte encodings work. I recommend double-checking terminal settings, encoding settings and the like. Also, trying a different method of login (if remote) or a differen terminal might be illuminating. The speed, Xon/Xoff et al mismatches mentioned by Gene hold true, too, of course. If there's a serial line or somesuch involved, I'd check its settings first. Hope this helps, Tobias -- Never touch a burning system.
