Thursday, September 22, 2011

Re: Gvim crashing in xmonad - Workround

On 22 Sep 2011, Taylor Hedberg wrote:
> Anthony Campbell, Thu 2011-09-22 @ 09:13:10+0100:
> > I am using a simple workround, which is to alias gvim to gvim -f to
> > prevent it forking. Not ideal but at least it doesn't crash.
>
> Sorry I can't be much more help. I'm simply not able to recreate the
> problem on my machine, and I don't have a Debian system on hand to try
> it on.
>
> The only other thing I might suggest would be to compile the latest
> version of Vim from Mercurial
> <http://code.google.com/p/vim/source/checkout> and see if it still
> happens. You didn't mention the patch level of the version you're using
> (the 3rd number in the version string), and many of the patches that
> have been released for 7.3 are bugfixes, so perhaps your issue has
> already been addressed.
>

I'll look into that. Meanwhile, I'm wondering if it has something to do
with the xcb libraries. I tried it on a third computer running the
stable version of Debian and it worked without error.

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