Saturday, January 26, 2019

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



On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 9:54 AM Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 1:59 AM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

I update the FreBSD Vim port on the first of every month, but I'm
happy to update early if there's a breakage.

Updating is a matter of changing PORTVERSION in
/usr/ports/editors/vim/Makefile, and running 'make makesum' from that
dir.

Updated to 822 with no effect (see below)


Does this behavior change if you change TERM (say, screen-256color)?

No (with screen-256color)
 
If you ssh from the console? If you use a different terminal emulator?

If I use xterm (default settings and -rv) it disappears.

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

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