netrw cuts off first letter(s) of file

[Kevin Dillman]

I am using Gvim version 7.2 on windows and have an occasional problem
with Netrw. When I
do :e . the output is sometimes missing the first letter of the file. Any
ideas why or what to check?
Kevin

[Charles Campbell]

It'd help to give an example.

And, "is sometimes missing the first letter of the file" is a bit
ambiguous. Are you talking about the "thin" display (as opposed to
wide, or tree, or long)? All filenames are missing their first letter?
Or just some specific file -- and what should that file appear as (am
wondering about unusual characters, for example).

Regards,
Chip Campbell

[Charles E. Campbell, Jr.]

First, thank you for the feedback!

Another thing I encountered recently; in the case of enc=euc-jp, users
were finding an extra "e" prepended before their filenames and
directories. Although with a last name of "Dillman" you're less likely
to be using euc-jp, still: what encoding are you using?

If you could, get the Decho plugin
(http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#DECHO) and enable it:
vim netrw.vim
:DechoOn
:wq

then try

vim
:e directoryname

and record the output. That might help me find the problem.

Regards,
Chip Campbell