Background process text appears in terminal vim
- by Jezen Thomas
First time poster, long time lurker, searched, couldn’t find etc, etc.
I’m running vim in tmux, in iTerm2. I’m running a server with Grunt.js, which I have running in the background, out of my way. I start my grunt server in the background like this:
grunt server &
Grunt also watches a bunch of files, and runs some tasks when any of the watched files have been written to. The problem is, when I am in vim and I write a file, the output from grunt starts rendering in vim! Here are some screenshots to illustrate the problem:
Before writing the file:
And after writing the file:
What have I tried?
I’ve tried running a ‘stock’ vim by starting with this:
vim -u NONE
…But the problem remains. This suggests to me that the problem is not with my .vimrc. Perhaps it’s an issue with iTerm2, I don’t know. Help.
