[vim] How to refresh vim automatically or prevent junk chars to appear ?

[Asim Suter]

Hi,

I am using vim 6.3 on Linux on PuTTy shell.

I notice that every so often some garbage characters appear on the screen,
for some reason I don't understand, which go away when I refresh the editor
( Control+L )

I notice that I am spendinng more time refreshing the editor than to do
actual work :-(

Is there any way to ask vim to do refresh automatically after every command
or after N number of seconds ?
Or better yet someway to prevent these unwanted characters to appear in the
first place..?

Thanks in advance!
vim user.

[Eric Pozharski]

On 2009-12-02, Asim Suter <asu...@cisco.com> wrote:
*SKIP*

> Is there any way to ask vim to do refresh automatically after every command
> or after N number of seconds ?

:help autocommand

> Or better yet someway to prevent these unwanted characters to appear in the
> first place..?

Depends on garbage. My vote is that the terminal and 'vim' instance
disagree on environment settings.

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[janooChen]

Asim Suter. I used to have the same problem on Windows XP. I think the problem is tat Vim cut some pixels from clear fonts and they appear in other places. To avoid this add the following lines:

set guifont=Monaco:h8:w5:cANS
set guifont=Monaco:h9:w6:cANS

So the fonts will get a "bit wider" and no pixel will be let behind.

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