[arch-general] Vim update - Stray chars on file-new

[David C. Rankin]

On 08/24/2017 05:17 PM, Simon Doppler wrote:
> Le jeudi, 24 août 2017, 03.44:11 h CEST David C. Rankin a écrit :
>> All,
>>
>>   After vim update to 8.0.0987-1, creating a new file with 'vim
>> somefile.txt' results in the following stray characters at the top of the
>> file:
>>
>> $q q
>> ~
>>
>>   Can someone confirm?
> Hi,
> 
> I had the same problem, but fixed it by changing the $TERM variable from 
> xterm-256color to konsole-256color in Konsole (I don't know why it is set that 
> way in the first place).
> 
> To change it, you need to edit your profile files (in ~/.local/share/konsole) 
> and add `Environment=TERM=konsole-256color` to the `[General]` section.
> 
> Best,
> 

It is a KDE issue with konsole. Upstream bug is:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383976

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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