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I've noticed that when using Windows PowerShell (to SSH into a computing cluster), sometimes parts of the text displayed in the terminal are missing or invisible -- if I try to select it with my cursor, it shows up as whitespace. It won't be totally random chunks of text e.g. like a part of some word, but rather a filename, whole variables or lines; it happens with echoed statements, in error messages, in the terminal or an editor. There doesn't seem to be any pattern I can discern. What's going on?

I know it's not an issue with my background or text colors being too similar, and highlighting it would reveal the characters anyway:

vim editor in colorscheme "koehler"

vim editor in colorscheme "desert"

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    Does it behave itself if you use Windows Terminal instead or PowerShell 7+? Commented Oct 22 at 3:22
  • Show examples of text that is hidden rather than just showing us blanks. Also, if it works in another terminal as suggested above, check what kind of formatting is used. Commented Oct 22 at 8:19
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    1. If you position the cursor in .vim over the blanked characters and press g a what does vim report? 2. What does head -n 35 filename | cat -v show? Commented Oct 22 at 9:49

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