Re: Yankring problem on Debian

On Tue, November 20, 2012 00:32, Paul wrote:
> I am using exactly the same .vimrc and .vim/ on Slackware and on multiple
> Debian Squeeze 6.0.6's, and only on the Debians do I see this behaviour.
>
> The "yt" and "vt" commands prompt me for the next character, but when I
> enter it, it appears I'm actually entering it in normal mode, not as the
> prompt input.
>
> For example, sample text:
>
> somemethod(arguments)
>
> I place the cursor somewhere before the first parenthesis and type "yt(".
> Vim then prompts me with "YR:Enter character:". I enter "(" again,
> thinking it somehow missed the first time I pressed it. Vim then thinks
> this is the actual '(' motion command, and takes me to the beginning of
> the sentence. The same happens for "dt(", but not for the commands, such
> as "vt(", including the capitalised backwards commands, which all behave
> as expected, and it's not just with "(".
>
> On my Slackware setup, both "yt(" and "dt(" behave as expected. They do
> change the statusline to "YR:Enter character:(", but it's just
> informative, not a prompt.
>
> As well as putting "set all&" atop my .vimrc, I've recompiled one of the
> Debian vims a few times, with various features enabled and disabled, to
> see if a feature is causing it, but I don't think so, at least, it's not
> obvious if one is. My latest feature set that differs on Debian is:
>
> –mouse-gpm
> [no +mouse_urxvt +mouse_sgr]
> –osfiletype
>

Does this also happen with a bare Vim without any plugins loaded?
Try vim -u NONE -U NONE -N

It sounds like the problem mentioned here:
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/msg/4ed40fea6cf5f6b4

regards,
Christian

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