(editor/vim) Re: strange stray unicode character on the second line of all files

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 <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 12:31 AM Aryeh Friedman
<aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> 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 <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> 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.

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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org

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