Re: Vim and the navigating with arrow keys

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz at sonic dot net>]

Brian,

At 07:25 2003-06-10, Brian.Kelly@empireblue.com wrote:

> ...
>
> However, I do take issue with your "practically flawless" line - for I
> still have the need to do CTRL-L refreshes with small files. Example:
>
> Simple text file with the following text:
>
> cygrunsrv -E cron
>
> Open in Vim, and do nothing but touch the L (lower case of course) key and
> navigate to the end of the line. The following text is the result:
>
> ccygrunsrv -E cro

Again, I cannot recreate this symptom.

How up-to-date are your other Cygwin packages? There have been termcap 
and terminfo updates in the past several weeks. Did you install them? 
Have you looked at you ~/.vimrc file lately to see if there's anything 
odd there? Perhaps clearing your ~/.viminfo would help? Do you use the 
"tty" option in your CYGWIN environment variable? I don't, so that 
could conceivably be a source of the dissimilarity between Vim's 
behavior on our respective systems.


> Of course a simple CTRL-L (lower case L) fixes this.
>
> I get the same result with the arrow keys.
>
>
> This is nothing new to me, and I've been living with it as long as 
> I've used cygwin and vim together. The behavior occurs when navigating 
> the first few lines of a large file, or any line of a file small 
> enough to fit completely on the screen.

There is no reason you should have to endure this misbehavior.


> None of this is crippling and if there is some setting I can change to 
> correct it, it would be "nice".

I surely would not put up with it.


> I thank you sir for pointing out my incorrect TERM setting. Since I'm 
> not qualified to give you a gold star, I'll simply pledge my "support" 
> give you my promise to cast a ballot for you if a "gold star" 
> referendum were ever held. ( hmmm, I can't remember if I'm registered 
> to vote! )
>
> Brian Kelly


Randall Schulz 


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