character display problem with VIM [Solved]

Bungopolis

My vim is acting very strangely. This is a new installation, and vim is not displaying files correctly. Gvim works fine, but output from console vim is replacing characters with )dm, *dm, +dm, etc. I can't figure out the behavior. It seems to be putting )dm in front of hashes... I also noticed that syntax hilighting is not working even when I enable it.

Here's an example from a PHP file:

Bungopolis · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 7:16 am Post subject:

I was right, it was my lack of ncurses support that made vim crappy. I had forgotten, however, to also recompile vim-core with the ncurses option.

So...

mhodak · Veteran Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 1218

Bungopolis · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:10 am Post subject:

Yeah well I tend to have a very minimal set of use flags just as a general guideline, but carefully inspect every emerge process for the flags I want. Ncurses is a good general one though, you're right.

My system emerge, for example, was only 84,401 KB as opposed to the ~250,000 KB default set. I haven't run into any problems with having such a minimal set of flags, and I keep logs of exactly what flags I used during every emerge process so that if something doesn't work I can troubleshoot through there.

ciaranm · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 3:14 pm Post subject:

For reference... Vim without ncurses uses a really really lame termcap/terminfo db which doesn't really work too well on certain setups. Best to turn on ncurses unless you know what you're doing...