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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1


Do my messages come through at all?
No-one answers or cares about this one. :-(

2013/9/16 Björn Kautler <Bjoern@kautler.net>:
> Hi Yaakov,
>
> is this fixed in the new Vim release?
>
> Regards
>
> 2013/8/13 Björn Kautler <Bjoern@kautler.net>:
>> Hi Yaakov,
>>
>> I'm wondering that noone mentioned it before, but maybe everyone is using ~/.vimrc or they were not as puzzled as me and tried to find out what went wrong.
>>
>> After updating to your latest vim build 1152, vim started to behave really unexpected, no syntax coloring, only one undo step and doing undo again did a redo, ...
>>
>> In the meantime I found out that your 7.3-virc.patch is the culprit, it replaces
>>
>> # define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "$VIM/vimrc"
>>
>> by
>>
>> # ifdef FEAT_NORMAL
>> # define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"
>> # else
>> # define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/virc"
>> # endif
>>
>> which changes system vimrc file from /etc/vim/vimrc to /etc/vimrc for normal vim usage.
>> This way no options are set and vim starts its strange behaviour.
>>
>> I guess the new block of code should probably more likely be
>>
>> # ifdef FEAT_NORMAL
>> # define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "$VIM/vimrc"
>> # else
>> # define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "$VIM/virc"
>> # endif
>>
>> or at most
>>
>> # ifdef FEAT_NORMAL
>> # define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "$VIM/vimrc"
>> # else
>> # define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/virc"
>> # endif
>>
>> Regards
>> Björn
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 11.06.2013 00:47, schrieb Yaakov (Cygwin/X):
>>> The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution:
>>>
>>> *** vim-7.3.1152-1
>>> *** vim-common-7.3.1152-1
>>> *** vim-minimal-7.3.1152-1
>>> *** xxd-7.3.1152-1
>>> *** gvim-7.3.1152-1
>>>
>>> Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the
>>> de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set and a choice
>>> of terminal and GTK+ interfaces.
>>>
>>> This is an update to last week's upstream patchset, with the following packaging changes:
>>>
>>> * The 'vi' binary now uses ~/.virc and /etc/virc instead of vimrc to avoid errors with configuration options not supported by 'vi'.
>>>
>>> * gvim on x86_64 uses the GTK+ interface.
>>>
>>

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