Monday, March 7, 2011

Re: Mystery vim7 versus vim6.4 - same term, different results

> This is long and boring, but here it comes. For vim 7.3:
>
> Set gives this:
> viminfo='300,f300,<0,r/var/tmp,r/tmp,n$HOME/.terminfo

This looks like the first thing to investigate.

The end of that should be $HOME/.viminfo not $HOME/.terminfo. Perhaps,
to avoid messing up Vim 6, it would be smartest to change this to
$HOME/.viminfo73 or something. I'm not sure how you managed to have this
set differently in Vim 6 and Vim 7, but it's definitely different, so
presumably you have individual control over it.

I wonder if that has indirectly caused the problem. I.e. Vim may have
written a file to ~/.terminfo which is obviously nothing to do with
.terminfo, but may be causing the terminfo code to silently fail, and
none of the terminal stuff to work properly.

So I guess try changing that viminfo option, and then tidy up
~/.terminfo appropriately and see if it's any better. If not, we'll
continue looking through the stuff.

Ben.

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