On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Jason White wrote:
A quick correction to my earlier remarks: Vim runs under the Gnome terminal reasonably well. However, if I jump to the first line of a document, the cursor seems to be lost: I need to be on the second character of the line in order to read it.
I have noticed the same thing. I have also had the experience you describe with gvim. I'd suggest using gedit when in Gnome.