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

On 2019-12-11, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> 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
>
> I don't think it is related to that CL. The problem appears to be in
> msg_puts_display(). When outputting the CR it thinks the text is going
> to wrap, but it won't.

I verified manually that the bug is not there in the previous
commit. I have no explanation.

I just built 8.1.2420. No bug. Thanks.

Regards,
Gary

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