From: Philip Oakley Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 18:41:44 GMT Subject: Re: Problem with Integrated Vim Editor on Win 10 Message-ID: <3130A15B06774B23AF4F56D4939918F1@PhilipOakley> In-Reply-To: From: "Zachary Turner" >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 > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Zachary Turner > 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? > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >