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Basically, vim behaves strange under iTerm2 (it works normally in Terminal). It sets the cursor in a non existing lines, it displays garbage (content from other lines) when I try to edit a line in a file etc. It is completely useless :(

I changed "reported terminal type" to "linux" as suggested in some post, but it didn't help

EDIT

  • iTerm2 version: Build 1.0.0.20120724 (very latest)
  • running with env TERM=xterm vim and env TERM=xterm-256color vim does not help
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Did you try to run vim with TERM=xterm vim? – patrix♦ Aug 20 '12 at 11:00
can you tell us which version of iTerm2 are your using? I am on Build 1.0.0.20120724 (without TMux btw), and using vim VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Jun 20 2012 13:16:02), and all works fine on iTerm2 – user1256923 Aug 20 '12 at 11:30
btw, I have report terminal type as xterm-256color, which is also specified in my bashrc as export TERM=xterm-256color – user1256923 Aug 20 '12 at 11:33
Can you upgrade iTerm2 to the latest version? – patrix♦ Aug 20 '12 at 11:47
Had this problem with iTerm 2 + screen over RS232 – Max Ried Aug 20 '12 at 13:19
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Apparently, removing set lines=40 does the trick. The manual says:

    Number of lines of the Vim window.
    Normally you don't need to set this.  It is done automatically by the
    terminal initialization code

so be careful when you copy-paste ready configs, as I did :)

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