Re: vim versions

Em sexta-feira, 3 de novembro de 2017 21:42:14 UTC-2, Tony Mechelynck escreveu:
> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Renato Fabbri <renato.fabbri@gmail.com> wrote:
> > vim commit messages are tagged with 8.0.1173 (last digit being incremented at each commit)
> > while git pull reports 8.0.1257.
> >
> > Are these the stable versions?
> > Which of these are the correct numbering and why do they differ?
> >
> > Also, are there alpha and beta versions and how to reach them.
> >
> > Best and cheers,
> > R.
>
> AFAIK, the latest Vim "bleeding-edge" state-of-the-art Vim version is
> 8.0.1257 and the latest not-for-tags commit says "patch 8.0.1257: no
> test for fix of undefined behavior". This was
> https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/2973daafe1732963b8924cb9df53c608804d66b3
> — I suppose this is the latest alpha, or maybe beta, if there is one.
> By compiling and installing this version, then running it, the startup
> splash screen (or the :intro command) tells me this is "version
> 8.0.1257".
>
> I'm not sure what the "latest stable" version of Vim would be at this
> point in time. I would guess no earlier (but maybe later) than 8.0.0,
> though the current version distributed by openSUSE Linux is still
> 7.4.326. I'm all for the latest development version but YMMV; however
> when reporting a bug, users are of course advised to check first if
> the bug is still present with all known patches installed. You can see
> at any time a one-line description of all 8.0 patches so far by
> browsing to http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/8.0/
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.

I had a custom configuration file:
https://github.com/ttm/vim/blob/master/Makefile
which prevented git from performing pull.
So it seems I am using the almost-bleeding edge.

How often do you update your Vim version?

Also, are there known teaks for dealing with the
bleeding-edge or would you care to share yours?
Here it works just fine with this vimrc:
https://github.com/ttm/vim/blob/master/vimrc


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