weird GVIM graphics bug
 

I would normally try to ask this on the official Vim.org mailing list but its been down for over a month.

Anyway, with GVIM and Slackware 12, in a KDE session, I am having a weird graphical glitch whenever I use the GVIM make command. A few other commands will cause this same glitch also.

Essentially what happens is that during the make process, while GNU make is running, GVIM will have its vertical scrollbar do acrobatics for me for no apparent reason.

The scrollbar, which normally appears on the right side of the screen, will disappear from the right side and appear on the left side really quickly, only to disappear and reappear on the right side again. This makes GVIM look like it is flickering. It really is pretty insane and I wish I could take a video of it for documentation purposes.

I haven't tested your story to confirm, but more or less related, I found that I no longer can highlight and copy text from Vim in Konsole. I can copy from command lines, Vi (Elvis) or Pico inside Konsole, but not from Vim.

set mouse=r

will fix that. For some reason the vim in Slack 12 assumes visual mode to be default (set mouse=v).

Not sure about the scrollbar problem though. I am beginning to wonder if the vim mailing list will ever come back. They must be having more than just technical problems.

Yes, set mouse=r fixed it. Thanks.