Hi Grahame! On Mo, 16 Jan 2017, Grahame Blackwood wrote:
> Hi > > PCLinuxOS has just upgraded Vim to version 8.0.163 but since then the command > line history doesn't work for me. The problem is that any command listed by q/ > and selected for action just returns me to the file being edited. > > I've tried to find out if any of the plugins I use are responsible by starting > Vim with -u NONE but that hasn't helped because the command line history > normally accessed by q/ showed it was empty. > > Two more attempts at finding the cause also failed: > > 1) I moved the entire .vim directory to another name hoping that the problem > might be caused by one of the plugins I use. This didn't make any difference > to the problem. I checked that none of the plugins we listed in :scriptnames > and they weren't. > > 2) Then I tried changing the name of the .vimrc file to 'newvim' to no > avail - the problem is still there. Again I checked :scriptnames and nothing > showed except the standard scripts in /etc/vim and /usr/share/vim. > > I put a request on the PCLinuxOS forum to see if anyone else has had the > problem but so far there's been no response to my post, although I'm sure I > can't be the only Vim user on the forum. > > Has any one else had this experience and is there a cure or a better way to > find the cause of the problem? That is a regression, introduced with 8.0.159 and fixed by 8.0.172. See issue #1370 https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1370 Best, Christian -- Die Öffentlichkeit! Wie vieler Narren bedarf es, um eine Öffentlichkeit zu ergeben? -- Nicolas Sébastien de Chamfort -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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_use" 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.
