Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Screen refresh lag on gvim + ubuntu 11.10 (gnome3)

First, let me say that I'm in love with Vim. I'm a new user (started
about two weeks ago) and I already can't imagine using anything else.

I recently got into playing with the colorschemes. I admit it, I'm a
sucker for pretty syntax highlighting. If I don't like the colors it
will totally break my love of a product. I downloaded "Moria" and
noticed that when I open it in gvim (rather than vim) the colors just
look great. I suppose gvim has more options for colors due to not
being in a console.

My issue now, however, is that when I'm using gvim i get a strange
issue with screen redraw lag. It's most noticeable when typing in
commands for some reason. Basically what it does is retains the orange
cursor over an existing letter randomly, making it impossible to read
what I've written.

This also occurs when entering html/php tags. As I type the syntax
will "lock" into a wrong color (or worse "between" colors). This is
very frustrating to me, I find it extremely distracting while I'm
typing to have the text behind the cursor unreadable.

As I said, I'm very new to Vim. I would appreciate any assistance,
just tell me what information I need to provide to help resolve this
issue (and how to get that information) and I'll be more than happy to
post it.

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