On 09/22/2016 09:17 AM, Matthias Gerstner wrote: > Hi, > >> For some reason, on one box, whenever I start vim it puts >> ":0000/0000/0000" on the command line. I've looked in vimrc and can't >> see any reference to this. Hitting Enter yields "E486: Pattern not found >> :0000" > > I've had a similar issues for the past months with my vim. It was > related to my using the "urxvt" terminal and its TERM variable being set > to "rxvt-unicode". > > In my case the effect didn't always show up but only under certain > conditions. I remember having seen a bug report for vim back then but > can't seem to find it right now. There are similar, older bug reports, > however, like this one: > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=199362 > > I also remember there was a bugfix to vim back then to fix the issue. > But the version containing the bugfix was not yet stable in portage and > so I've lived with the occasional bug until now. I'm currently using > vim-7.4.769 and I think the bugfix was contained just a few micro > versions later if I'm not mistaken.
Hmm, I've just upgraded to vim v8 and it is still doing it. I'm quite confused. Dan