I am using tmux via putty on windows and this is what my panes look like when divided: http://i.imgur.com/r8WZo7c.png Trying to figure out how to get the lines to appear between panes Check locale settings on the remote server to be sure you're using a utf8 locale. Check putty settings to make sure the utf-8 character set is selected meingtsla: thanks. that was it http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2013-October/036871.html iirc this used to be documented in in the handbook, however i cannot find it anymore found it...seems like the ipv6_prefer setting has ben obsoleted and just removed from the handbook http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2012-July/020215.html hm Weird. vim just segfaulted. :o finally stopped being lucky eh? I was just paging up in a file when it happened. Well you wouldn't have a problem if you simply remembered what's above in the file. :p