Oh, thanks very much Christian - I'll add another post to the PCLinuxOS forum and ask for an update to 8.0.172.
Cheers
G
On 16 January 2017 at 12:13, Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:
Hi Grahame!
On Mo, 16 Jan 2017, Grahame Blackwood wrote:
> Hi
>
> PCLinuxOS has just upgraded Vim to version 8.0.163 but since then the command
> line history doesn't work for me. The problem is that any command listed by q/
> and selected for action just returns me to the file being edited.
>
> I've tried to find out if any of the plugins I use are responsible by starting
> Vim with -u NONE but that hasn't helped because the command line history
> normally accessed by q/ showed it was empty.
>
> Two more attempts at finding the cause also failed:
>
> 1) I moved the entire .vim directory to another name hoping that the problem
> might be caused by one of the plugins I use. This didn't make any difference to the problem. I checked that none of the plugins we listed in :scriptnames
> and they weren't.
>
> 2) Then I tried changing the name of the .vimrc file to 'newvim' to no
> avail - the problem is still there. Again I checked :scriptnames and nothing
> showed except the standard scripts in /etc/vim and /usr/share/vim.
>
> I put a request on the PCLinuxOS forum to see if anyone else has had the
> problem but so far there's been no response to my post, although I'm sure I
> can't be the only Vim user on the forum.
>
> Has any one else had this experience and is there a cure or a better way to
> find the cause of the problem?
That is a regression, introduced with 8.0.159 and fixed by 8.0.172.
See issue #1370 https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1370
Best,
Christian
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