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Cursor movement in Vim/Neovim is slower in Terminal #806

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Ported from internal issue MSFT: 21185335

When using Vim or Neovim in WSL, cursor movement appears much slower in Terminal than in vanilla wsl.exe.
I've attached a few screen recordings of me moving the cursor vertically in Vim and Neovim in both vanilla wsl.exe and WSL in Terminal.

Two Vim options I have enabled that I've noticed significantly exacerbate the issue are cursorcolumn and cursorline, but it is still noticeably slower even with them disabled.

WSL Version: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Vim Version: 8.1.1-744
Neovim Version: 0.4.0

@nathpete-msft, can you re-attach the recordings here if you can still see this?

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    Area-PerformancePerformance-related issueArea-RenderingText rendering, emoji, complex glyph & font-fallback issuesIssue-BugIt either shouldn't be doing this or needs an investigation.Needs-Tag-FixDoesn't match tag requirementsProduct-TerminalThe new Windows Terminal.Resolution-Fix-CommittedFix is checked in, but it might be 3-4 weeks until a release.

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