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So, when running vim under gnu screen and using a color scheme, some of the color sequences bleed into the prompt after I close the program. This only happens under gnu screen, and not when I'm not running a terminal multiplexer. It also doesn't happen under tmux FWIW.

I'm not sure whether GNU screen or vim is the culprit here. Other editors that use colors like jed, joe and gnu emacs do not leave stray colors.

How do I configure either screen or vim to not do this?

Steps to reproduce and visual proof:

Sorry if the screenshots take up a lot of space, I can cut it down, but I think this makes the problem obvious.

1) start gnu screen

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2) start vim

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3) this is vim without any color scheme turned on.

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4) turn on the industry color scheme (note that the filetype plugin is not on, so the whole thing is bright white).

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5) exit vim and hit enter a couple of times

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    What is echo $TERM here? Also, what does :set term? report in Vim?
    – muru
    Commented Dec 22, 2016 at 7:10
  • TERM is set to screen-bce (defbce on in my .screenrc is a workaround for another bug) vim's :set term is term=screen-bce ... so it looks like vim is picking up the terminal type from the environment correctly. Whether it knows what to do with a screen-bce terminal is anyone's guess.
    – Greg Nisbet
    Commented Dec 22, 2016 at 7:13
  • Maybe this topic will help you? stackoverflow.com/a/15279464/1199156
    – grodzik
    Commented Dec 22, 2016 at 7:40
  • Does pressing <C-l> fix it?
    – Martin Tournoij
    Commented Dec 31, 2016 at 3:50
  • @Carpetsmoker inside vim or in the shell? For the moment, I'm working around the problem by using color codes in my shell prompt, which resets the color.
    – Greg Nisbet
    Commented Dec 31, 2016 at 4:00

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Reset to default
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I had a similar problem when messing with my VIMRC file. Seems that these let lines were causing the trouble, commenting them fixed the problem.

Hopefully it helps someone stumbling into this same problem.

"" Theme and colors   
set termguicolors

"let &t_8f="\<Esc>[38;2;%lu;%lu;%lum"
"let &t_8b="\<Esc>[48;2;%lu;%lu;%lum"
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