Oh, thanks very much Christian - I'll add another post to the PCLinuxOS forum and ask for an update to 8.0.172.
Cheers G On 16 January 2017 at 12:13, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- -- 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.
