Re: Vim redraw issue in Xubuntu 13.10 (running inside VMWare Workstation 10)

On 29/12/2013 08:12, Marcin Szamotulski wrote:
> On 05:07 Sun 29 Dec , Some Developer wrote:
>> On 29/12/2013 03:21, Some Developer wrote:
>>> I've tried gVim 7.4.131 and gVim 7.3.1314 (both compiled from source by
>>> myself) using the following compilation options:
>>>
>>> ./configure --with-python-config-dir=/usr/bin/python-config --with-x
>>> --enable-gui=gtk2 --enable-gtk2-check --enable-cscope --disable-netbeans
>>> --enable-multibyte --enable-pythoninterp=yes --disable-darwin
>>> --with-features=huge
>>>
>>> and in both versions the screen fails to redraw correctly when entering
>>> text. The main issue seems to be that if a menu is displayed with
>>> autocorrect the screen does not seem to redraw itself. If I press
>>> Control-r then the issue is temporarily fixed. I'm not entirely sure on
>>> the best way to troubleshoot this particular issue. I've had gVim
>>> working correctly on the same operating system, the same version and the
>>> same plugins / configuration with no problem at all.
>>>
>>> The only thing I can think of that has changed is that I have recently
>>> switched from using Virtualbox 4.3.6 to using VMWare Workstation 10.
>>>
>>> Has anyone got any suggestions for things to try to get some useful
>>> debugging information to try and solve this issue at all? Unfortunately
>>> there doesn't seem to be any error messages in the console if gVim is
>>> started from the command line so I'm somewhat stumped. Especially as I
>>> have had this working just fine in the past.
>>
>> OK. After spending some time testing various things out I've managed to
>> narrow the problem down a little bit.
>>
>> The problem only seems to manifest itself when editing HTML files with
>> gVim. When editing the same HTML file with the command line version of
>> Vim the problem does not occur (even though exactly the same
>> configuration / plugins are in use when using both).
>>
>> I've looked through my configuration for any HTML specific options and
>> tried to disable them all but to no avail.
>>
>> I've also tried the version of gVim in the Ubuntu repositories with the
>> same problem. I'm completely stumped.
>>
>> I currently have the following plugins installed:
>>
>> YouCompleteMe
>> ack
>> ctrlp
>> gundo
>> minibufexpl
>> nerdtree
>> powerline
>> pydoc
>> pytest
>> syntastic
>> tagbar
>> ultisnips
>> fugitive
>> vim-pony
>> vim-virtualenv
>> Pathogen
>> dbext
>> autocomplpop
>> l9
>> python_editing.vim
>>
>
> Have you tried "gvim -u NONE"?
>
> What are the steps to reproduce it: do you use <c-x><c-o> in the insert
> mode to trigger this behaviour?
>
> Regards,
> Marcin
>

It still happens when using "gvim -u NONE".

Steps to reproduce are easy. Load an HTML file with gvim, enter insert
mode and press return a few times in the middle of the file to add new
lines. After 2 or 3 new lines have been added the cursor starts
overwriting text underneath rather than adding new lines. Exiting out of
insert mode and pressing Ctrl-R to refresh the screen redraws everything
and the file looks correct again. Do some more editing in insert mode
and it screws up again until Ctrl-R is pressed again.

I have a feeling this has something to do with GTK+ rather than Vim
since the command line version works perfectly with the same file.

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