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

The exact same thing was happening to me! It wasn't occurring in gvim, so I thought maybe something was going on in my .vimrc. I zeroed-out my .vimrc but it was still happening. Only when I completely deleted my .vimrc did this behavior stop. As suggested,I rolled back to an older version (7.3.1152-1) with cygwin setup and that fixed it. I did not have to change any terminal settings, however. It makes sense because I updated cygwin yesterday, when I started seeing the errant g's.