Weird behavior moving cursor on terminal.

GioGio · 2017-11-20 07:16:51

Hello everyone, I'm having a weird problem while using VIM on arch linux.
To better explain what happens I have included an animated gif
https://imgur.com/a/iCLCI
This happens only when writing into a string I think.
Someone has any idea what could be the problem?

Another thing I noticed is that when I was using a certain program (Weka) it was not displaying the character 'y'. I don't know if that could be related.

Thanks in advance for any hint.

jasonwryan · 2017-11-20 07:25:37

Looks like your TERM is broken. Are you forcing it anywhere?

GioGio · 2017-11-20 07:51:28

jasonwryan wrote:

Looks like your TERM is broken. Are you forcing it anywhere?

Forgive the maybe dull question, but what do you mean exactly by forcing it?

jasonwryan · 2017-11-20 07:52:40

Are you exporting a TERM variable anywhere in your shell initialisation files? What happens if you `echo $TERM` in your terminal and then in vim?

GioGio · 2017-11-20 08:02:48

jasonwryan wrote:

Are you exporting a TERM variable anywhere in your shell initialisation files? What happens if you `echo $TERM` in your terminal and then in vim?

mmh no there is no export TERM in the initialisation files.

the command returns xterm both in the terminal and in vim

seth · 2017-11-20 08:32:48

This is not a monospace font and the majority of terminals cannot deal with that (leaving aside that it's a crap choice because your brain has far work to do)

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Weird behavior moving cursor on terminal.

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