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I'm getting very odd characters (001B in a block, which apparently is escape?) in vim when I enter a newline, and sometimes when I switch to normal mode.

You can see the result here:

Screenshot of odd characters

What's odd is that it behaves normally in gvim/macvim/iTerm2 vim, but not gnome-terminal. I'm using base16-shell to get base16-ocean, and the colortest succeeds.

Here is my corresponding vimrc:

.vimrc

Chai T. Rex
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mjedmonds
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Per @egmont, Solution is to update vim's cursors to avoid gnome-terminals' vte bug.

See solution at my updated vimrc: https://github.com/mjedmonds/.dotfiles/commit/41c1d4639d7b2b047d260602f27a80695cf73f9c

mjedmonds
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Thanks to @mjedmonds for the original solution. I found it quite good for Terminator but still had a couple of buggy screens (vim from ptipython for one) and issues with the initial cursor. So I removed the apple filters and added a little - potential users will probably benefit from comparing the two.

" Solve extra characters on vim screens in terminator in Linux
" Enable different cursors based on the mode from
" https://github.com/mjedmonds/dotfiles/commit/41c1d4639d7b2b047d260602f27a80695cf73f9c
" Information on cursors to complete it from
" https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Change_cursor_shape_in_different_modes"

if has("autocmd")
  au BufNewFile,VimEnter,BufEnter,InsertLeave * 
    \ silent execute '!echo -ne "\e[2 q"' | redraw!
  au InsertEnter,InsertChange *
    \ if v:insertmode == 'i' | 
    \   silent execute '!echo -ne "\e[6 q"' | redraw! |
    \ elseif v:insertmode == 'r' |
    \   silent execute '!echo -ne "\e[4 q"' | redraw! |
    \ endif
  au VimLeave * silent execute '!echo -ne "\e[ q"' | redraw!
endif


let &t_SI = "<Esc>P<Esc><Esc>]50;CursorShape=1\x7<Esc>\"
let &t_SR = "<Esc>P<Esc><Esc>]50;CursorShape=2\x7<Esc>\"
let &t_EI = "<Esc>P<Esc><Esc>]50;CursorShape=2\x7<Esc>\"
John 9631
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