On Monday, September 4, 2017 at 3:01:53 AM UTC-4, Christian Brabandt wrote: > On Mo, 04 Sep 2017, Manuel Ortega wrote: > > > 8.0.1039 broke setline(). I know this by bisection. To reproduce: > > > > Make a file, testvimrc, that contains one line: "source foo". > > > > Create the file "foo", and let it contain only the following: > > > > call setline(1, "Hello There") > > > > To show the bug, do: vim -u testvimrc -u NONE -N > > > > Expected behavior, which was also the actual behavior before 8.0.1039: I > > see a > > new buffer with "Hello There" on the first line. > > > > Actual behavior: after 8.0.1039: I see no text whatsoever in the buffer. > > > > This is on macOS 10.12.6. > > I see the problem. There is a new check for buf->b_ml.ml_mfp == NULL in > set_buffer_lines that wasn't there previously and this was no problem > before, because ml_replace would open the buffer if ml_mfp would be > null. I think we can safely change this check to: [snip] > > or perhaps even completely remove the check. Not sure if this however > will break in some situations, but at least I could not break it using > > :call setbufline(5, 1, 'foobar') > > in the startupfile (when buffer number 5 does not exist yet.
Thanks, I'll try this out. Sorry that my reproduction case was not maximally simple. One can (with the same files defined above) just do "vim -u foo -N" and the difference beteen 8.0.1039 and its predecessors will be apparent. -Manny -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
