Terminal command in Kate using an unknown profile?

[David O'Brien]

I've been using Kate on Fedora for many years and love it. A few quirks, 
perhaps, but overall really good. I have, however, encountered a strange 
problem that I can't solve.

I often use the terminal view to perform various commands, and also to 
edit files in Vim while keeping the standard editor open in the top part 
of Kate. This has always worked fine. A day or two ago I started 
noticing different behaviour. When I start Vim from the in-built terminal:

- Highlighted text appears in bold. I know this is an option in the Vim 
profile but I don't use it. It interferes with the render of various 
characters.

- If I press Escape to exit Insert mode, the focus switches back to the 
file in the Kate editor. I can't find any shortcut that might be causing 
this, or how to stop it.

I know these might seem like small issues but because I edit all day 
they have a significant impact on my workflow. If I start Vim from a 
Bash shell none of these issues occur; everything works as expected. The 
only thing I can think of is that Vim from the Kate terminal somehow 
uses a different profile, but I don't know how to tell which one it's 
using, or how to change it.

My system:

Fedora 41 (running X, not Wayland)

Gnome desktop with a few KDE bits.

GNU bash, version 5.2.32(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)

GNOME Shell 47.3

Konsole (not gnome-terminal) 24.12.1

Kate Version 24.12.1

I'd really appreciate any help because this is slowing me down a lot. 
Thanks very much.

-- 
David
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