Running Mac OS X, using either Terminal.app or iTerm2, there is a strange artefact with the character rendering that I have a hard time explaining and an even harder time understanding. I'll start with a video of my screen so that you can see and example of it in action:
From the video you can see a few ways it is weird, for example, sometimes when I hit a letter in insert mode, the character is double printed. When I go into normal mode, the artefact remains. When I re-enter insert mode, hitting backspace copies the characters on the left to the position under the cursor.
This has happened in OS X Lion, and Mountain Lion, under both Terminal.app and iTerm 2. This never happens under MacVim.
Also, I use GNU/Linux on my other machine, and have never had this happen, I am pretty sure it is strictly a Mac OS X issue, but I do not know how to fix it. For a while, I've been working around it by using MacVim most of the time, but I prefer working in a terminal.
Does anyone know what is happening here, and if so, how can I fix it?
EDIT: I tried using the macvim Vim executable, and I still get strange artefacts, but they are localized to the left side of the screen, here is an example:
Best Answer
Total shot in the dark: do you have the following line in your ~/.vimrc?
Try commenting it out with a
"at the beginning of the line and restarting vim.I picked it up from somebody's dotfiles repo and haven't had a chance to track down why it's causing problems.
I'm running iTerm2. My
$TERMisxterm. Hope that helps.