Strange this. My gvim 7 setup on XP has been working fine for as long as v7 has been available. I'm currently on 7.0.178.
Other than that described below, gvim is working fine. If I never load _vimrc, then nothing appears to be wrong. The symptoms are that when I load _vimrc into a buffer, and _vimrc contains syntax on then vim hangs. The vim window displays (the GUI opens), but the vim window is empty, although the status line shows the file and 1L, 11C. Since I'm now testing with a _vimrc containing only syntax on it appears to 'stuck' at EOF. When I try the same with my regular _vimrc, vim gets stuck at 158L, 6028C, which is also weird (although the line count it fine). The swp file is created in these scenarios. Looking at the process monitors, it is not consuming any resources once it hangs. I have tried deleting _vimrc and recreating it (with vim). but as soon as I save it with the 'syntax on' line and reload it, it hangs. If I comment out the 'syntax on' line and load vim, then all is well - including editing _vimrc. However, I then need to set 'syntax on' manually. This works okay. However, if I do this, then later load _vimrc, vim hangs. Finally, I tried a clean install on another machine and the same thing happens - although it previously contained a copy of currently broken setup. Any ideas? -- Cheers, Marc
