When I use vim-alt-mappings in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver, then my Vim 8.0.1453 session becomes corrupted at launch. Specifically, strange character sequences appear in the command area, and the first few characters of the buffer are overwritten. This happens, for example, when launching vim . or vim ~/.vimrc
Configuration:
https://github.com/mcandre/dotfiles/blob/0188e5850c251ede34a7d14b3c678ecf2fadf7da/.vimrc