gnome-terminal corrupted character display at the VIM cursor ?25I

[Phez]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Ubuntu 9.04 gnome-terminal

Repro:
ssh into an HPUX box and run vim

When you enter Insert mode the some characters will be displayed on top of the cursor: '[?25I ' and these characters _appear_ highlighted. The second character '[' appears to overlap the the previous character a little and is cutoff by the next character.
When you hit Esc to return to command mode and move the cursor, the same characters are displayed but they will not be highlighted.

This also occurs when scrolling, and typing in insert mode.

Details:
These characters are not in the vim buffer, and will usually disappear if you resize the window.

Highlighting the characters that appear highlighted inverts the colors (on my grey on black screen they become white on black)
Highlighting the non-highlighted characters appears normal.

Changing the 'text' color in profiles affects all characters, and no other palette changes affect any characters.

Testing:
 HPUX PA-Risc 11.00, vim 7.2
 HPUX IA64 11.31, vim 7.1

Ubuntu 9.04 fully patched
gnome-terminal:
  Installed: 2.26.0-0ubuntu2.1

[Phez (phezzan0)]

Forgot to mention:
Tried the test with putty and xterm - both work fine

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

is this reproducible on karmic?

[Phez (phezzan0)]

I don't know, I haven't installed Karmic with gnome.

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>wrote:

> is this reproducible on karmic?
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
>
> --
> gnome-terminal corrupted character display at the VIM cursor ?25I
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/467303
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>
> Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
>
> Ubuntu 9.04 gnome-terminal
>
> Repro:
> ssh into an HPUX box and run vim
>
> When you enter Insert mode the some characters will be displayed on top of
> the cursor: ' [?25I ' and these characters _appear_ highlighted. The second
> character '[' appears to overlap the the previous character a little and is
> cutoff by the next character.
> When you hit Esc to return to command mode and move the cursor, the same
> characters are displayed but they will not be highlighted.
>
> This also occurs when scrolling, and typing in insert mode.
>
> Details:
> These characters are not in the vim buffer, and will usually disappear if
> you resize the window.
>
> Highlighting the characters that appear highlighted inverts the colors (on
> my grey on black screen they become white on black)
> Highlighting the non-highlighted characters appears normal.
>
> Changing the 'text' color in profiles affects all characters, and no other
> palette changes affect any characters.
>
> Testing:
> HPUX PA-Risc 11.00, vim 7.2
> HPUX IA64 11.31, vim 7.1
>
> Ubuntu 9.04 fully patched
> gnome-terminal:
> Installed: 2.26.0-0ubuntu2.1
>

[Phez (phezzan0)]

Karmic is also affected

[Paweł Nadolski (paweln)]

Issue is still present on Lucid.

[Paweł Nadolski (paweln)]

Ubuntu 10.10 is still affected by this bug.

[Paweł Nadolski (paweln)]

To work around this bug put following line in .vimrc on the HPUX box:
set term=vt200

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Bug did not expire due to assignment
No comments for nearly 8 years
Bug refers to GNOME 2 version of terminal
Closing as the report is now invalid