Re: stray control characters appear on vim startup

On 2017-10-16 16:21, John Passaro wrote:
> Sometimes when I open a new vim session, unpredictably, various
> characters appear on the first line, they look like they are
> terminal control characters but I don't know for sure.
>
> For example:
> ;2R^[[>0;95;0c
>
> They go away as soon as I type over them or redraw the screen.

This sounds suspiciously similar to

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29939026/what-is-the-ansi-escape-code-sequence-escc

> Does anybody have any idea how I can investigate this?

I'd start by checking your $TERM settings both in your shell:

$ echo $TERM

and within vim:

:echo $TERM

and see if they're the same. Based on your description, I imagine
they both *should* return "xterm" but possibly some variant such as
"xterm-color256" or some other such suffix.

-tim

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