Note I have added the maintainer of the vim port on FreeBSD to the To header for reasons given in the body of the reply
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 6:43 PM Tony Mechelynck < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 12:31 AM Aryeh Friedman > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Forgot to mention that hitting ^R or ^L will clear the character from > the screen > > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 4:40 AM Aryeh Friedman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> For some odd reason (bug?) a stray unprintable unicode character > appears several spaces over on the second line of every file I edit (even > when the second line is nothing more then a new line): > >> > >> // src/java/specmed/devinv/DevInvUtil.java > >> � <-- The stray unicode character > >> Here is the output for cat -e of the first two lines of the same file: > >> > >> // src/java/specmed/devinv/DevInvUtil.java$ > >> $ > >> > >> Platform info: > >> OS: FreeBSD 11.2 > >> Terminal type: ssh (xterm-256color) via xfce4-term 0.8.7.4 on xfce4 > desktop (4.12) > >> Vim --version output: > >> VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Jan 25 2019 04:31:10) > >> Included patches: 1-676 > >> Compiled by aryehl@timeless > >> Huge version with GTK2 GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): > > This problem, or something quite like it, has recently been reported and > fixed. > > The above is Vim 8.1.676. The latest source as of this writing is > 8.1.822; IOW there has already been 146 patches since the version you > used. Please try again with a newer Vim. > 1. Since FreeBSD uses a centralized port and the port is currently only up through 676 I will wait until the official maintainer updates the port 2. I do not see any patches with descriptions off hand in the patch inventory after 676 that appear to relate to this issue. -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
