Why vim is changing first letter to g after opening a file

Question

When I open a file, eg vim .bashrc, vim opens the file and change the first letter to g. What I see is the following:

g To the extent p         


        

Answer 1

So it appers to be a vim issue. So far I gathered only two solutions:

• Reinstall to older version of vim. i reinstalled to 7.4.752-1 and bug is gone.
• Change cygwin terminal to anyone but "xterm*" (right-click on title bar -> Options... -> Terminal -> Type)