Re: Escape sequences printed to the console when starting Gvim 8.1

2021-01-07 Fir de Conversatie Philip Pemberton
On Thursday, 7 January 2021 at 16:59:18 UTC Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Dominique wrote: > > > I recall that for recent vim, terminals such as xfce4-terminal > > and gnome-terminal (maybe others) in Ubuntu-18.04 are too > > old and Vim can output spurious codes on the terminal, > > It hapens for

Re: Escape sequences printed to the console when starting Gvim 8.1

2021-01-06 Fir de Conversatie Philip Pemberton
I've just solved a packaging issue on the machine, and Apt has pulled down Vim 8.2.1897, with the same issue. Console output below: philpem@cheetah:~$ gvim --version VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Oct 24 2020 16:26:37) Included patches: 1-1897 Modified by jonathon.fernyho...@york.ac

Escape sequences printed to the console when starting Gvim 8.1

2021-01-06 Fir de Conversatie Philip Pemberton
I recently installed Syntastic (https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic/) under Vim 8.1 (from https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/vim ) on Ubuntu 18.04, and have stumbled upon an odd issue. If I start gvim (vim-gtk3) from a terminal, I see a sequence of escape characters printe