Re: Newbie question: how/where do I submit a bug (and possibly a patch)?
Ben Schmidt wrote: once logged into Sourceforge, it says that this is for filing bugs against the vimonline website... not for filing bugs against Vim itself I think that is correct. The procedure for reporting Vim bugs is documented in Vim's help at, funnily enough :help bugs Cheers, Ben. Equally funny is that once I have it built and running enough to be able to do that, I'll probably have fixed the bug myself and it will be a non-issue at that point. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the vim_dev maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Newbie question: how/where do I submit a bug (and possibly a patch)?
Philip Prindeville wrote: In a sort of roundabout kind of way, I clicked on the link bugs when I when to www.vim.org's site help link, but once logged into Sourceforge, it says that this is for filing bugs against the vimonline website... not for filing bugs against Vim itself (though looking at the list of existing bugs, most of them seem to be against Vim... oddly). So which is right? Thanks, -Philip I would suggest the following: 1. Find out who is responsible for the component where you think there is a bug. Most of Vim is maintained by Bram, [EMAIL PROTECTED] , but not all of it. If the maintainer isn't Bram, his name and email address ought to be mentioned near the top of the source file or Vim script in question, and/or near the top of the corresponding help file (if any). 2. Write out a bug report, as clearly as you can, if possible with a procedure to repeat the bug every time when using [g]vim -N -u NONE, and address that bug report to both the maintainer and the vim_dev group ( vim_dev@googlegroups.com i.e. this one). 3. Wait for any reactions. Best regards, Tony. -- If God had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the vim_dev maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Newbie question: how/where do I submit a bug (and possibly a patch)?
Philip Prindeville wrote: Ben Schmidt wrote: once logged into Sourceforge, it says that this is for filing bugs against the vimonline website... not for filing bugs against Vim itself I think that is correct. The procedure for reporting Vim bugs is documented in Vim's help at, funnily enough :help bugs Cheers, Ben. Equally funny is that once I have it built and running enough to be able to do that, I'll probably have fixed the bug myself and it will be a non-issue at that point. Even if you fix the bug yourself, you should let others benefit from it, e.g. by sending the bug description and the fix (as a context diff of every file you changed) to Bram and also (if different) to the maintainer(s) of the concerned source(s) (see my previous post), and possibly also to the vim_dev group. Of course, before doing that, you should make sure that you have the latest sources with all patches, and the latest runtimes. See, among others, my HowTo pages: (Unix) http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm (Win32) http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compile.htm Best regards, Tony. -- ... Logically incoherent, semantically incomprehensible, and legally ... impeccable! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the vim_dev maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Newbie question: how/where do I submit a bug (and possibly a patch)?
once logged into Sourceforge, it says that this is for filing bugs against the vimonline website... not for filing bugs against Vim itself I think that is correct. The procedure for reporting Vim bugs is documented in Vim's help at, funnily enough :help bugs Cheers, Ben. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the vim_dev maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Newbie question: how/where do I submit a bug (and possibly a patch)?
Philip Prindeville wrote: Ben Schmidt wrote: once logged into Sourceforge, it says that this is for filing bugs against the vimonline website... not for filing bugs against Vim itself I think that is correct. The procedure for reporting Vim bugs is documented in Vim's help at, funnily enough :help bugs Cheers, Ben. Equally funny is that once I have it built and running enough to be able to do that, I'll probably have fixed the bug myself and it will be a non-issue at that point. O dear, what a shame! I presumed by 'bug' you meant something wrong with a running Vim, not a problem building Vim. Bugs and build problems are frequently discussed on this list, which is mentioned briefly at :help bugs, too, so post away and we'll see if someone can help. For interest/information, I've pasted the section of the help below. Smiles, Ben. Bug reports:*bugs* *bug-reports* *bugreport.vim* Send bug reports to: Vim bugs [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is not a maillist but the message is redirected to the Vim maintainer. Please be brief; all the time that is spent on answering mail is subtracted from the time that is spent on improving Vim! Always give a reproducible example and try to find out which settings or other things influence the appearance of the bug. Try different machines, if possible. Send me patches if you can! It will help to include information about the version of Vim you are using and your setup. You can get the information with this command: :so $VIMRUNTIME/bugreport.vim This will create a file bugreport.txt in the current directory, with a lot of information of your environment. Before sending this out, check if it doesn't contain any confidential information! If Vim crashes, please try to find out where. You can find help on this here: |debug.txt|. In case of doubt or when you wonder if the problem has already been fixed but you can't find a fix for it, become a member of the vim-dev maillist and ask your question there. |maillist| Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the vim_dev maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
