Vim shows somewhat broken representation but the actual output to file is correct, terminal issue?

MadeInGermany · 04-29-2024, 03:34 AM

On my system the ncurses package also contains toe and the /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt* files.

If your system only has the unicode versions.
Maybe you should make sure that your have a utf-8 locale:

Code:

locale
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
locale

minuzed · Yesterday, 04:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadeInGermany

On my system the ncurses package also contains toe and the /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt* files.

If your system only has the unicode versions.
Maybe you should make sure that your have a utf-8 locale:

Code:

locale
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
locale

Tried that with

Code:

sudo localectl set-locale en_US.UTF-8

but vim is still broken so it made no difference I'm afraid..

pan64 · Yesterday, 05:13 AM

after a command like that sudo localectl you may need to log out/log in again.
Anyway, would be nice to compare the two environments (working and non-working vi).

Just one addition:
You can check the environment within vi by executing :%!env and/or :%!set (and save the result)

minuzed · Yesterday, 09:04 AM

This is what I got from running :%!env as user:

Code:

SHELL=/bin/bash
WINDOWID=12582918
COLORTERM=rxvt-xpm
EDITOR=vi
PWD=/home/user
LOGNAME=user
SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID=492
_=/usr/bin/env
WINDOWPATH=2
HOME=/home/user
ARGS= -br -pn   
LANG=C
VIMRUNTIME=/usr/share/vim/vim91
vblank_mode=0
INVOCATION_ID=62cf483e7bff4e2aa4c698660073cb48
VIM=/usr/share/vim
TERM=rxvt
USER=user
COLORFGBG=default;default
CLUTTER_DISABLE_MIPMAPPED_TEXT=1
DISPLAY=:0
SHLVL=1
SYSTEMD_PAGER=
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/runtime-user
MYVIMRC=/home/user/.vimrc
JOURNAL_STREAM=7:7390
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/tmp/dbus-A3BSYhSnUE,guid=427c8afa883177b4c6c1b347662b7ba4
XSERVER=/usr/bin/Xorg

And this is what I got from running 'su - root' and then :%!env inside vim:

Code:

SHELL=/bin/sh
COLORTERM=rxvt-xpm
EDITOR=vi
PWD=/root
LOGNAME=root
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty
_=/usr/bin/env
HOME=/root
VIMRUNTIME=/usr/share/vim/vim91
VIM=/usr/share/vim
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
TERM=rxvt
USER=root
DISPLAY=:0
SHLVL=1
SYSTEMD_PAGER=
XDG_SESSION_ID=c1
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/0
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root

I'm not totally sure what all of those variables do or in what way they might be able to affect vim. At a glance, I don't see anything that looks out of the ordinary.

pan64 · Yesterday, 10:09 AM

LANG, TERM and LC_* can be important.
you may try also su root, without -, probably behaves differently

minuzed · Today, 02:22 AM

Here is the output of running 'su root' and then vim test.txt:

Code:

SHELL=/bin/sh
WINDOWID=29360134
COLORTERM=rxvt-xpm
EDITOR=vi
PWD=/home/user
LOGNAME=root
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty
SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID=492
_=/bin/env
WINDOWPATH=2
HOME=/root
ARGS= -br -pn   
LANG=C
VIMRUNTIME=/usr/share/vim/vim91
vblank_mode=0
INVOCATION_ID=62cf483e7bff4e2aa4c698660073cb48
VIM=/usr/share/vim
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
TERM=rxvt
USER=root
COLORFGBG=default;default
CLUTTER_DISABLE_MIPMAPPED_TEXT=1
DISPLAY=:0
SHLVL=2
SYSTEMD_PAGER=
XDG_SESSION_ID=c2
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/0
JOURNAL_STREAM=7:7390
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/tmp/dbus-A3BSYhSnUE,guid=427c8afa883177b4c6c1b347662b7ba4
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root
XSERVER=/usr/bin/Xorg

I think it look very similar to doing it as a normal user except some mixing of root directories and SHLVL=2 instead of =1.