The below is not a sufficient reproduction receipe for me. I'm running Debian Stretch (testing).
Things do not go wrong at step #5, nor afterward. At 2017-04-05T22:03:50-0400, James McCoy wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 10:29:20PM +0100, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote: > > I finally found a reliable way to reproduce it. > > > > Steps to reproduce: > > > > 0) open the attached test.md file: > > > > $ vim -u NONE test.md > > > > 1) enable syntax highlighting: > > > > :set bg=dark > > :syn on > > > > 2) go to the end of the file: > > > > [Shift+G] > > > > 3) go back to the beginning of the file (line by line): > > > > [k].....[k] ← hold the key pressed until you reach the first line > > > > 4) visualize file info on the status line: > > > > [Ctrl+G] > > > > 5) the syntax highlighting has gone crazy (even the status line is > > in boldface!): see the attached screenshot > > wrong_vim_syntaxmarkdown.png > > > > 6) exit from vim: > > > > :q > > > > 7) the terminal (xterm), or rather the shell (bash), has also gone > > crazy (it now prints everything in boldface by default): see > > the attached screenshot > > wrong_vim_syntaxmarkdown2.png > > > > 8) the terminal won't come back to normal behavior until I quit it; > > another trick to regain the normal behavior of the terminal is > > opening test.md again, enable syntax highlighting, and exit vim > > (steps 0, 1, and 6 above) Regards, Branden
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