Re: "Press ENTER" prompt when edit file with long path

On 2019-12-11, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2019-12-10, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > In an 80-column terminal, when I invoke vim on an existing empty file
> > with a name that is 56 'x' characters, it displays the following prompt
> > before I can edit the file:
> >
> > ----
> > "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" 0 lines, 0 characters
> >
> > Press ENTER or type command to continue
> > ----
> >
> > How can I stop it from doing that?
> >
> > NOTE: The file has to exist for it to do this. If it's a new file that
> > Vim will create, Vim does not show the prompt.
>
> This looks like a new bug. The presence of the 't' flag in the
> 'shortmess' option should prevent this, and that flag is there by
> default. I just verified that it used to work in 7.4.1689 and
> 8.0.1453 but is now broken in my 8.1.2352 (on Linux) as well as your
> 8.1.2400.

I used git bisect and tested with

$ src/vim -N -u NONE ../xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

where the file had already been created, to determine that the
commit that introduced this bug was:

473952e85286eb9c6098801f1819981ba61ad153 is the first bad commit
commit 473952e85286eb9c6098801f1819981ba61ad153
Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Date: Sat Sep 28 16:30:04 2019 +0200

patch 8.1.2094: the fileio.c file is too big

Problem: The fileio.c file is too big.
Solution: Move buf_write() to bufwrite.c. (Yegappan Lakshmanan,
closes #4990)

:100644 100644 2d05b4a3af6a96a04f446789b5c9ca69ab905e9c dfc06245e585e883459dfa04416addce91d3d8ce M Filelist
:040000 040000 506a68f58e09932cd2b29e2f3eaec5e16e197a9f b5166a4265c3536326785a13e29336e7f778448a M src

Regards,
Gary

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