Re: Diagnosing a Vim Crash

On 8 February 2016 at 08:52, A. S. Budden <abudden@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 February 2016 at 17:23, Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:
>> On Fr, 05 Feb 2016, Dominique Pellé wrote:
>>
>>> You're using vim-7.4.827. The latest vim is vim-7.4.1261
>>> so you're missing quite a few patches.
>>>
>>> Since you wrote that you compiled vim yourself, could you
>>> recompile the most recent version? It would avoid trying
>>> to debug something that might have been fixed already.
>>>
>>> Glancing at ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.4/README,
>>> I can see several crashes were solved after vim-7.4.827.
>>> In particular, I see that your vim has Lua and a crash was
>>> fixed for Lua (7.4.954) for example.
>>
>> Also you can get (almost) daily binary snapshots at:
>> https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
>
> Thank you both: I've installed the newest version and will report back
> once I've tried it enough to have confidence of whether it crashes or
> not.

I've been using the newer version of Vim for a few months now and the
crashes seem to have gone, so I guess it was something that has since
been resolved. Thanks for the help.

Al

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