I'm having an issue with vim startup. Whenever I run vim somefile, it starts as though I pressed c just after startup. So, if I then try to immediately jump to the end of the file with G, it instead changes to the end of the file, i.e. all the lines from the startup line to the end of the file are gone and I'm in insert mode. I'm using terminal vim rather than MacVim, and my shell is zsh in case that's relevant. I'm using the base 16 tomorrow 256-color scheme in both my shell and in vim—dark for the shell and the light incarnation for vim. I'm using the Janus configuration with pretty minimal customization.
Here are the things I've tried to find the problem:
- Comment out everything from my
.vimrc.afterfile except colorscheme and font declarations. No change. - Disable my base16 color scheme commands in iTerm2 and vim. Thought maybe the 256 color shell script was causing an issue, but no dice.
- Removed the one custom plugin I have in Janus (Emmet). No difference.
- Changed colorscheme to a non-base16 scheme. No difference.
The only real difference I've been able to find is between iTerm2 and Terminal.app. In Terminal.app, the change command seems to be limited to a single line no matter what motion command I type immediately after startup. So, if I type G after opening a file, it does not remove all the lines below. It just deletes the line it is on and enters insert mode.
Another couple pieces of evidence: 1) If I open a directory with vim path/to/directory, I get slightly different behavior from Terminal.app and iTerm2. In iTerm2, there's no apparent issue. In Terminal.app, I get E481: No range allowed message at the bottom of the window. 2) If I use MacVim, the behavior is not present as far as I can tell. This makes me think it's something to do with my shell environment. Both Terminal.app and iTerm2 have their terminal reporting set to xterm-256color.
So, that's the situation. Below are the contents of my relevant vim files. While a solution to the issue will be helpful, I'm more interested in learning to fish here. Part of my frustration with vim in the past was that it would sometimes do things I didn't understand. Sometimes through typos or fat fingering commands or something, but nevertheless, I didn't know what I did to cause the bizarre behavior so that I could avoid it in the future. I'm in that same boat here. I don't want to know just how to fix it but what was going wrong and some sort of methodology for tracking down the problem that I could maybe apply to future issues. Thanks in advance!
.vimrc.before
set nocompatible
let mapleader=","
set splitbelow
set splitright
call janus#disable_plugin('nerdtree')
if has("gui_running")
let g:loaded_netrw = 1 " Disable netrw
let g:loaded_netrwPlugin = 1 " Disable netrw
endif
.vimrc
""
"" Janus setup
""
" Define paths
"let g:janus_path = escape(fnamemodify(resolve(expand("<sfile>:p" . "janus" . "janus")), ":h"), ' ')
"let g:janus_vim_path = escape(fnamemodify(resolve(expand("<sfile>:p" . "janus" . "janus" . "vim")), ":h"), ' ')"
let g:home_path = expand("~")
let g:vim_path = g:home_path . "/.dotfiles/vim"
let g:janus_path = g:vim_path . "/janus/janus"
let g:janus_vim_path = g:janus_path . "/vim"
let g:janus_custom_path = g:vim_path . "customization"
if filereadable(g:janus_vim_path . '/core/before/plugin/janus.vim')
" Source janus's core
exe 'source ' . g:janus_vim_path . '/core/before/plugin/janus.vim'
" You should note that groups will be processed by Pathogen in reverse
" order they were added.
call janus#add_group("tools")
call janus#add_group("langs")
call janus#add_group("colors")
""
"" Customisations
""
if filereadable(expand("~/.vimrc.before"))
source ~/.vimrc.before
endif
" Disable plugins prior to loading pathogen
exe 'source ' . g:janus_vim_path . '/core/plugins.vim'
""
"" Pathogen setup
""
" Load all groups, custom dir, and janus core
call janus#load_pathogen()
" .vimrc.after is loaded after the plugins have loaded
endif
.vimrc.after
let base16colorspace=256 " Access colors present in 256 colorspace
set background=light
colorscheme base16-tomorrow
set guifont=Panic\ Sans:h13
"set tabstop=4
"set shiftwidth=4
"set softtabstop=4
"set expandtab
"let g:user_emmet_install_global = 0
"autocmd FileType html,css,eruby,eruby-rails EmmetInstall
" window
nmap <leader>sw<left> :topleft vnew<CR>
nmap <leader>sw<right> :botright vnew<CR>
nmap <leader>sw<up> :topleft new<CR>
nmap <leader>sw<down> :botright new<CR>
" buffer
nmap <leader>s<left> :leftabove vnew<CR>
nmap <leader>s<right> :rightbelow vnew<CR>
nmap <leader>s<up> :leftabove new<CR>
nmap <leader>s<down> :rightbelow new<CR>
" clear search highlight
nnoremap <esc> :noh<return><esc>
" exit insert mode when beginning text movements
:imap jj <Esc>
:imap jk <Esc>
:imap kk <Esc>
:imap kj <Esc>
set clipboard=unnamed
"Helpful stuff from Steve Losh
set list
set listchars=tab:▸\ ,eol:¬ "Change the invisible character display characters.
set wrap
set textwidth=79
set formatoptions=qrn1
set colorcolumn=85
nnoremap / /\v
vnoremap / /\v
set ignorecase
set smartcase
set gdefault
set incsearch
set showmatch
set hlsearch
"nnoremap <leader><space> :noh<cr>
nnoremap <tab> %
vnoremap <tab> %
set encoding=utf-8
set scrolloff=3
set autoindent
set showmode
set showcmd
set hidden
set wildmenu
set wildmode=list:longest
set visualbell
set cursorline
set ttyfast
set ruler
set backspace=indent,eol,start
set laststatus=2
set relativenumber
set undofile
nnoremap <up> <nop>
nnoremap <down> <nop>
nnoremap <left> <nop>
nnoremap <right> <nop>
inoremap <up> <nop>
inoremap <down> <nop>
inoremap <left> <nop>
inoremap <right> <nop>
nnoremap j gj
nnoremap k gk
inoremap <F1> <ESC>
nnoremap <F1> <ESC>
vnoremap <F1> <ESC>
" Save on focus lost
au FocusLost * :wa
.gvimrc.before
call janus#disable_plugin('NERDtree')
.gvimrc.after
" Override existing colorscheme with version found in
" ~/.janus/<colorscheme>/colors/<colorscheme>.vim
if exists("g:colors_name")
let color_override = expand('~/.janus/' . g:colors_name . '/colors/' . g:colors_name . '.vim')
if filereadable(color_override)
exe 'source ' . color_override
endif
endif
set background=light
colorscheme base16-tomorrow
set guifont=Panic\ Sans:h13
