Re: [arch-general] Vim update - Stray chars on file-new

2017-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On 08/24/2017 05:17 PM, Simon Doppler wrote: > Le jeudi, 24 août 2017, 03.44:11 h CEST David C. Rankin a écrit : >> All, >> >> After vim update to 8.0.0987-1, creating a new file with 'vim >> somefile.txt' results in the following stray characters at the top of the >> file: >> >> $q q >> ~ >> >>

Re: [arch-general] Vim update - Stray chars on file-new

2017-08-24 Thread Simon Doppler
Le jeudi, 24 août 2017, 03.44:11 h CEST David C. Rankin a écrit : > All, > > After vim update to 8.0.0987-1, creating a new file with 'vim > somefile.txt' results in the following stray characters at the top of the > file: > > $q q > ~ > > Can someone confirm? Hi, I had the same problem, bu

Re: [arch-general] Vim update - Stray chars on file-new

2017-08-24 Thread Omar Polo
I'm not using arch atm, but I remember I had the exactly same problem using neovim on the tty. After some experiments, I've found that the cause was the changing of the shape of the cursor. So, try ``` vim -u NONE foo.txt ``` to see if the problem remains. On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 08:44:11PM -0500

Re: [arch-general] Vim update - Stray chars on file-new

2017-08-23 Thread Darshit Shah via arch-general
* David C. Rankin [170824 03:44]: All, After vim update to 8.0.0987-1, creating a new file with 'vim somefile.txt' results in the following stray characters at the top of the file: $q q ~ I have seen something like this for a while on server. I thought it was some misconfigured display setti

Re: [arch-general] Vim update - Stray chars on file-new

2017-08-23 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 08/23/2017 09:44 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > After vim update to 8.0.0987-1, creating a new file with 'vim somefile.txt' > results in the following stray characters at the top of the file: > > $q q > ~ > > Can someone confirm? > I can confirm that it's just you. :) -- Eli Sc

[arch-general] Vim update - Stray chars on file-new

2017-08-23 Thread David C. Rankin
All, After vim update to 8.0.0987-1, creating a new file with 'vim somefile.txt' results in the following stray characters at the top of the file: $q q ~ Can someone confirm? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.