Ben Fritz wrote:
> Whoops, forgot to cross-post.
>
> On Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:38:10 PM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote:
> > On Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:31:14 AM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9:48:35 PM UTC-6, Michael Chu wrote:
> > > > I had the same problem as "[email protected]" after installing Vim on
> > > > my work laptop running Windows 7, and the solution posted by the user
> > > > worked for me.
> > > >
> > > > It was the default _vimrc that I modified to get vimdiff to work
> > > > properly.
> > >
> > > The dosinst.c file creates the default _vimrc file, and contains an issue
> > > where there is an old workaround for calling an external program at a
> > > path containing spaces. But this old workaround fails with the new
> > > default value of shellxquote from the middle of the 7.3 patches. It needs
> > > an update.
> > >
> > > For now you can remove the logic to add an extra pair of quotes around
> > > the entire command, or temporarily set shellxquote to empty inside that
> > > function and restore it at the end of the function.
> >
> > I think this patch fixes the installer.
Thanks for the patch. I hope a few people try it out, it's quite tricky
and depends on the environment. Especially users who set another shell.
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