On 20/06/09 02:07, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > On 20/06/09 01:56, Tony Mechelynck wrote: >> >> 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. > > Oops! It won't work, because there's something wrong with how Vim reads > your keyboard. > > So let's see if it can interpret these commands from the shell command-line: > > vim --cmd 'redir ~/vim.log' --cmd 'version' -c scriptnames -c 'echo "<" > . $TERM . "<"' -c 'verbose set term? ttybuiltin?' -c 'redir END' -cqa > > (all on one line). You might also try the same with -u NONE in addition, > immediately after vim. > > > Best regards, > Tony.
P.S. Then see (in each case) what was printed on ~/vim.log Best regards, Tony. -- This is National Smokers-Are-Shits Week. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
