Re: stray control characters appear on vim startup

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 doesn't happen consistently or according to any predictable pattern
> (at least not that I can discern). It only started relatively recently, and
> I don't recall that I've updated vim or made any changes to my environment
> that might have prompted it (I'm using xterm, bash-4.4, vim 8.0).
>
> Does anybody have any idea how I can investigate this?

That looks like the xterm version string (but probably not in xterm).
When this happens, what does this do:
echo v:termresponse

Do you execute a shell command during startup?

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