Terminal Emulator Blinking Words in VIM

I am starting to write LaTeX documents in VIM and here is my code: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \frac{2x}{2} * \end{document} For some reason, the following characters are blinking in the terminal: - {article} - {document} - {}{} - {document} This forum seems to be related: https://superuser.com/questions/449335/vi-editor-text-is-flashing-and-unusable/450302 There was another post (EDIT: I found it: https://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-291190.html) from 2013 saying to do: export TERM=linux and I don't want that because text gets bolded and in vifm the selected file blinks. I just want to turn blinking completely off - I can't see what I am typing when the screen is constantly blinking. It is very distracting. - OS: Arch Linux - Terminal emulator: xterm