On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 01:30:07PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Vim segfaulted when pointed to gzipped file: > > -8<- > $ vim /usr/share/doc/arora/changelog.gz > Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV > > Vim: Finished. > Segmentation fault > ->8-
This worked fine for me when using /usr/share/doc/vim-common/changelog.Debian.gz as the test file. > This file belongs to arora 0.9.0-1 from Debian unstable. > > When ungzipped manually, Vim works: > > -8<- > $ zcat /usr/share/doc/arora/changelog.gz | vim - > E326: Too many swap files foundVim: Reading from stdin... > > ->8- > I don't have any ideas about swap files error though. “:help E326” explains that. That might be related. > -8<- > vim -u NONE -U NONE /usr/share/doc/arora/changelog.gz > ->8- > > Worked, but it didn't seem to attempt to uncompress the file, so many > control characters were shown only. You would need “vim -u NORC /usr/share/doc/arora/changelog.gz” so the plugins are still used. Could you try that? Also, could you install the vim-dbg package and post the backtrace for the crash? -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[email protected]>
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