Hi David!
On Di, 18 Dez 2012, David Fishburn wrote:
> I am seeing different behaviour (gVim or console Vim) distilled down to
> this ex cmd:
>
> :let msg = "Enter character:" | echo msg | let c = getchar() | let c =
> nr2char(c) | echon c
>
> On my Ubuntu 12.04 (Vim 7.3.pretty current) and Mac Mountain Lion (MacVim
> 7.3.390) box I get this output:
> :Enter character:j
>
> But I have some users reporting they get this:
> :Enter character:j
> Press ENTER or type command to continue
>
> So far we see this behaviour with at least these versions:
> uname -a
> Linux iaintapps1 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Tue Sep 25 11:45:53 EDT 2007 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> Vim 7.1.147
>
> Linux, Slackware current and Debian Squeeze 6.0.6.
> Vim 7.3.645
>
> cmdheight = 1 in all cases, cmdheight = 2 problem goes away, but a lot of
> users don't want to change this.
>
> Can anyone think of reasons this might happen?
> The screen width is far wider than the text displayed on the screen.
>
> Originally, it seems that if TERM = *-256color that problem occurs.
> So xterm-256color and screen-256color.
> When TERM=xterm the problem went away sometimes, a little too inconsistent.
>
> I am trying to get a consistent behaviour in my plugin, and will look for
> work arounds in code if I can determine why it is happening.
Hm, could it be, that the screen size is smaller, so that the whole
command line wraps?
regards,
Christian
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