On 19/06/09 18:06, Dale Huffman wrote:
>
> My console version of vim is acting funny.
> It starts up with the status line displaying
> ,0-1 All<snip> and then a zero at the end of
> the line.
>
> I can go into insert mode but then every keypress generates a newline
> and the screen shifts up.
> the status line gets moved up the screen
>
> For example here I entered insert mode and typed "help me" and this is
> what the bottom of my screen looks like.
> And I see none of my typing. I'm sure how to start debugging this.
[...]
> gvim works fine
> I'm using
> VIM - Vi IMproved 7.1 (2007 May 12, compiled Jan 8 2009 02:55:10)
> on Ubuntu 8.04 installed from Ubuntu repositories.
:echo '"' . $TERM . '"'
:verbose set term? ttybuiltin?
:version
See also |:redir| about how to capture the output of one or more of
these commands.
Near the middle of the output of ":version", it says "system vimrc
file:" with a pathfilename. Does that file exist? If it does, does its
contents look "sensible"?
BTW, 7.1 is, let's say, not this semester's fashion. You may want to
compile your own Vim, see my HowTo for Unix/Linux at
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm -- it isn't
really hard, I started when I was still hardly more than a Vim newbie.
The latest patchlevel is currently (as of this writing) 7.2.209. You can
see a one-line summary of every bug already fixed for Vim 7.2 at
http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/README
Best regards,
Tony.
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