Re: Problem with Integrated Vim Editor on Win 10

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Mar 31, 2016, 18:41 UTC
Message-ID: <3130A15B06774B23AF4F56D4939918F1@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <CAAErz9jeLPU+QocSKNssknoJdZoi4Sq0YfZiNnpf4wD70JKQUQ@mail.gmail.com>

From: "Zachary Turner" <zturner@google.com>

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>I dug into this some more, and as surprising as it is, I believe the
> release of Git 2.8.0 is just busted.  I had an installer for 2.7.0
> lying around, so after uninstalling 2.8.0 and re-installing 2.7.0,
> everything works fine.
>
> I'm not terribly active in the Git community so I don't know what the
> procedure is for things like this, but this seems like a fairly
> serious regression.  Suggestions on how to proceed?

see https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/711#issuecomment-204003950 "Indeed, the culprit is git-for-windows/msys2-runtime@7346568 and reverting it fixes the issue. Will continue tomorrow." @dscho

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> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Zachary Turner <zturner@google.com> 
> wrote:
>> Hi, just recently I installed the latest build of Windows 10 of my
>> machine. This is my second Win10 machine. On the other I am using git
>> 2.7.0.windows.1 and everything is working just fine.
>>
>> On the second machine I am using git 2.8.0.windows.1 and vim does not
>> work. I sent a bug report to bugs@vim.org, but frankly I don't know whose
>> bug this is, so I'm including it here as well.
>>
>> The problem is that vim is just a black screen when git launches it. If I
>> mash enough keys eventually I see something that resembles vim output at
>> the bottom, but I can't actually use it.
>>
>> I tried going into program files\git\usr\bin and just running vim.exe.
>> Again, black screen. If I press enter about 10 times I can see the
>> introduction screen. Then if I press : about 10-20 times it will go into
>> command mode and a single : appears. after pressing a few more keys all
>> the rest of the :s appear. Basically, everything is completely unusable.
>>
>> I tried downloading vim 7.4 from www.vim.org, and low and behold, it
>> works. For now I've replaced the copy of vim.exe that ships with git with
>> the copy from www.vim.org. But this leaves me nervous that something is
>> seriously wrong.
>>
>> Has anyone seen anything like this before, or have any ideas how I might
>> better diagnose this?
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