Re: question about string expression evaluation / bug?

Hi,

hsitz wrote:
>
> Tim -- Thanks for the suggestions (which I answered in previous
> response).
>
> I'm starting to think this is a bug in vim itself. Here's more of the
> background:
>
> The error is happening on an up-to-date ArchLinux system running the
> development branch of the VimOrganizer filetype plugin. (Available
> at: https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer )
>
> I'm author of that plugin and a user complained of problems running
> that I debugged remotely. This problem does not happen on any of my
> Windows installs or on a couple Linux installs I've checked (Ubuntu,
> OpenSuse).
>
> The user is able to replicate the problem this way:
>
> 1. open terminal vim from command line with command 'vim'
> 2. run :echo 'DONE' > '' (properly outputs value of 1)
> 3. quit vim
> 4. open any org file, 'vim anyorgfile.org'
> 5. run :echo 'DONE' > '' (returns invalid output of 0)
>
> So it seems something gets screwed up when the filetype plugin is
> initialized. Strange because (1) no errors are thrown, (2) same code
> works fine on many other systems, and (3) even if something in
> VimOrganizer is screwy I can't imagine proper behavior for vim is to
> have different results for same expression in steps numbered 2 and 5,
> above.

two ideas:

1. is the 'vim' command the real Vim or is it an shell alias or function
which behaves differently depending on its argument?

2. does the user have a :cmap for ''?

Regards,
Jürgen

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