| I suspect this is a telnet thing...that you have CR<->CR/LF | translation enabled for the connection; that your telnet software is | doing a translation of your single CR into a CR/LF which gets passed | to vim.
Cheers, man - that did it! Pressing the ^] in the client and then unset crlf fixed the problem. For anyone in the same problem, here is a link for reference: http://www.mkssoftware.com/support/kb/default.asp?article=248 :) /Hugo