Vim shows garbage characters

Question

When I start vim with one of these plugins:

• TagBar
• Session

I see sometimes garbage characters in the buffer when I open vim.

Here are these characters:

;2R^[[>1;2802;0c

By uninstalling these two plugins, I don't see these garbage characters anymore.

If I type dd, it does not even delete these characters. Vim says the buffer is empty.

Putting this command at the end of my .vimrc is a workaround for this problem:

autocmd VimEnter * redraw!

With this, these characters are deleted immediately.

How can I fix this problem?

Commissionaire

Answer 1

I switched to neovim and I've never seen this issue anymore.

Commissionaire

Answer 2

Vim asks the terminal for its version, what you're seeing is the response (cp. :help v:termresponse). It only appears printed in the terminal; that's why you can't "edit" it and it appears after a redraw.

Why Vim doesn't properly receive it, I don't know. Switching the terminal program might help. You could also try to suppress the query via :set t_RV= in your ~/.vimrc.

Dermatoglyphics

Switching to bash or sh does the same thing as zsh. And adding this line in my .vimrc change the garbage text to ;2R. Is there anything else I can do? Thanks. – Commissionaire

The shell doesn't influence this, switching to another terminal might help. – Dermatoglyphics

I tried several terminals (mate terminal, sakura, terminator, patheon terminal and gnome terminal) without success. Have you another idea? Thanks. – Commissionaire

Which plugins do you have installed? I'm having the same issue. – Dowager

In my case, this was being caused by: nnoremap <Esc> :noh<CR>. Commenting out this line solved the issue. – Any

Answer 3

Thanks Ingo! I only get this on the mac, so for me it's

   if has('mac')
   :set t_RV=
   endif

Symphonic

Answer 4

This fixed it for me

:echo v:termresponse

inside vim, with this value I put that into set t_RV= inside my .vimrc.

Rowel