Strange character visible in a term session

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Strange character visible in a term session #1203

Closed amadeus closed 3 years ago

amadeus commented 3 years ago

Describe the bug CleanShot 2021-08-03 at 18 00 37

The best way to describe this bug is using the screenshot above - I am comparing terminal sessions between iTerm and a terminal buffer in MacVim - and I am noticing MacVim display a sort of odd V like character

I am unsure if this is a MacVim bug, a Vim bug, or something with regards to my terminal settings?

Expected behavior My expected behavior is that my MacVim terminal session would look identical to an iTerm session

Environment (please complete the following information):

MacVim version 8.2 patches 1-3273
OS: macOS 11.5

Additional context This is not a new issue, I think it's been around since terminal sessions were introduced, just never got around to reporting it.

eirnym commented 3 years ago

Hey, Thank you for an issue

Could you please check in a clean MacVim and Vim provided by a MacVim package just to make sure where the issue is.

Also I'm not sure what is a term session you're referring to.

amadeus commented 3 years ago

I’ll double check a clean macvim shortly, but when I say terminal session - I mean just launching a new window in iTerm or running :term in macvim

amadeus commented 3 years ago

I can confirm - using MacVim downloaded from releases, along without any vimrc/plugins/configuration, does the same thing:

eirnym commented 3 years ago

So both in-term Vim and :term are affected, yes?

Could you check "pure" vim from Homebrew/MacPorts/macOS? Apple Terminal.app?

Could you also share your shell config?

amadeus commented 3 years ago

My shell config is: https://github.com/amadeus/prezto

In normal terminal - I do not get a V character with my shell config.

If I launch vim in terminal, then start a term session, I see the V character there as well

amadeus commented 3 years ago

I'm guessing, it's some sort of layout character that in Vim, isn't processed properly by the terminal code, so may not be something macvim can fix?

eirnym commented 3 years ago

Hi,

I'm sorry for a delay response

I've played a bit with your ZSH configuration and I see this V-like symbol in many cases and it's even featured in a screenshot of the configuration

I personally prefer self-made configuration as it does load only what I really want and don't spam with aliases and it is relatively fast. I can share if you'd like to.

amadeus commented 3 years ago

Gonna close this for now - it's a character that apparently has some meaning with my zsh config, so probs just need to figure out what that is.