Saturday, May 5, 2012

Re: Screen refresh lag on gvim + ubuntu 11.10 (gnome3)

On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 3:07:28 PM UTC-8, Nathan Cox wrote:
> 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.

Nathan,

I am having the same issue and it is driving me bonkers! Did you ever figure out what the problem was and how to resolve it?

Cheers!
Dan

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