On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 10:49:35PM -0400, sean wrote: > Hi, > First off, thanks for a great editor! Sorry to be dropping in with a > problem ;o) > > When I start the Vim beta here[1] things work great. However, dropping > to the shell with :sh and then trying to start another copy of vim > results in a crash. Same thing happens when doing :!vim, that is: > > Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV > Vim: Finished. > > The backtrace[2] lead me to suspect a problem with my .vimrc. Sure > enouch if I remove it, everything works as expected. However, even > an empty .vimrc causes the problem, so its not some quirk based on > the contents of my .vimrc. > > Happy to help do further testing if it's needed. > > Thanks again, > Sean > > [1] Fedora Core 5 + vim from development: vim-enhanced-7.0.d001-1, > vim-common-7.0.d001-1, vim-minimal-7.0.d001-1, vim-X11-7.0.d001-1
This was fixed in vim 7.0d002 or 7.0d003. It should certainly work in the latest, vim 7.0e. HTH --Benji Fisher