Re: Vim 8 command line history not working

On Monday, January 16, 2017 at 1:15:32 PM UTC, Grahame Blackwood wrote:
> Oh, thanks very much Christian - I'll add another post to the PCLinuxOS forum and ask for an update to 8.0.172.
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> On 16 January 2017 at 12:13, Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:
> Hi Grahame!
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> On Mo, 16 Jan 2017, Grahame Blackwood wrote:
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> > Hi
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> > PCLinuxOS has just upgraded Vim to version 8.0.163 but since then the command
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> > line history doesn't work for me. The problem is that any command listed by q/
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> > and selected for action just returns me to the file being edited.
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> > I've tried to find out if any of the plugins I use are responsible by starting
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> > Vim with -u NONE but that hasn't helped because the command line history
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> > normally accessed by q/ showed it was empty.
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> > Two more attempts at finding the cause also failed:
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> > 1) I moved the entire .vim directory to another name hoping that the problem
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> > 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
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> > 2) Then I tried changing the name of the .vimrc file to 'newvim' to no
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> > avail - the problem is still there. Again I checked :scriptnames and nothing
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> > showed except the standard scripts in /etc/vim and /usr/share/vim.
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> > I put a request on the PCLinuxOS forum to see if anyone else has had the
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> > problem but so far there's been no response to my post, although I'm sure I
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> > can't be the only Vim user on the forum.
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> > Has any one else had this experience and is there a cure or a better way to
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> > find the cause of the problem?
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> That is a regression, introduced with 8.0.159 and fixed by 8.0.172.
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> See issue #1370 https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1370
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> Best,
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Hi All

Packagers at PClinuxOS have upgraded Vim to 8.0.194 and the problem I had with the command line history is resolved.

Thanks once again Christian and to the Packagers at PClinuxOS.

G

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