From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Olsson Subject: Re: Problem with Integrated Vim Editor on Win 10 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 06:33:26 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 31 08:35:17 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1alWCL-0007XA-7k for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:35:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755321AbcCaGfG (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2016 02:35:06 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60159 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752800AbcCaGfF (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2016 02:35:05 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1alWC7-0007T1-HC for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:35:03 +0200 Received: from sofina.i3tex.com ([194.103.140.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:35:03 +0200 Received: from peter by sofina.i3tex.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:35:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 194.103.140.6 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Zachary Turner google.com> writes: > > Hi, just recently I installed the latest build of Windows 10 of my > machine. This is my second Win10 machine. On the other I am using git > 2.7.0.windows.1 and everything is working just fine. > > On the second machine I am using git 2.8.0.windows.1 and vim does not > work. I sent a bug report to bugs vim.org, but frankly I don't know whose > bug this is, so I'm including it here as well. > > The problem is that vim is just a black screen when git launches it. If I > mash enough keys eventually I see something that resembles vim output at > the bottom, but I can't actually use it. > > I tried going into program files\git\usr\bin and just running vim.exe. > Again, black screen. If I press enter about 10 times I can see the > introduction screen. Then if I press : about 10-20 times it will go into > command mode and a single : appears. after pressing a few more keys all > the rest of the :s appear. Basically, everything is completely unusable. > > I tried downloading vim 7.4 from www.vim.org, and low and behold, it > works. For now I've replaced the copy of vim.exe that ships with git with > the copy from www.vim.org. But this leaves me nervous that something is > seriously wrong. > > Has anyone seen anything like this before, or have any ideas how I might > better diagnose this? > Same problem here, but on Windows 7. I'm pretty sure that this was introduced in version 2.8.0 for Windows. Before upgrading, I used the latest 2.7 version and it worked as expected. I'm not sure where we should report this? /Peter