I consistently see text display corruption when editing a file on a remote Linux system with vim.
I run an xterm window on macOS and ssh into a remote Linux machine. The edit session is displayed back to an XQuartz server running on the same macOS. I have only seen this problem when displaying back to an XQuartz server running on macOS. I have not seen the problem when displaying back to an X11 server running on various Linux systems. This problem occurs with newer versions of vim, but not older versions. Inserting lines causes the INSERT message to be displayed in the command line, but it is not cleared after hitting the ESC key. Inserting text also causes extraneous lines of text to be added to the body of the original text, corrupting the edit display. I suspect that I am seeing the same vim behavior as was reported in this incident: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/GR9YG8TZy6o A work-around is to add this statement to the .vimrc file: set ambiwidth=single I do not know if this is a bug in vim, XQuartz, or both. So I am asking for vim help here and XQuartz help in another forum. Here is a summary of editing a file using two versions of vim, each with and without, the ambiwidth work-around. New Vim ------- VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10) Included patches: 1-207, 209-326 Compiled by 'http://www.opensuse.org/' Works with: set ambiwidth=single Fails without: set ambiwidth=single Old Vim ------- VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Feb 4 2012 09:50:29) Included patches: 1-108 Compiled by 'http://www.opensuse.org/' Works with: set ambiwidth=single Works without: set ambiwidth=single -- Dick Riegner -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.