First look at Vim 7 (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

Linux.com takes a look at the upcoming release of Vim 7. "To test Vim, I compiled the 7.0f beta release on Ubuntu Breezy and used it for my day-to-day work for several days. I had been using Vim 6.3, so moving to Vim 7.0 wasn't too drastic. I was relieved to find that I didn't run into any show-stopper bugs or instability while I was working with Vim. It hasn't eaten any files, and none of the new features exhibit major bugs."

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crasher bug in gvim 6

Posted May 3, 2006 14:36 UTC (Wed) by astrophoenix (guest, #13528) [Link]

I run gvim 6.4 all day long, every day. I have been having a problem for
quite a while now. sometimes when focus is switched to or away from gvim
using a keyboard shortcut, gvim will get a segfault.

I've seen with many versions of gvim, from 6.3 through 6.4.6. I've seen it
in gentoo and ubuntu both, through many version bumps in both distros. my
friend at work has also seen it in suse. I've tried the athena version of
gvim and also the gtk+ version (in both gentoo and ubuntu, had to roll my
own .debs for the athena one in ubuntu), both exhibit it. I've run gvim in
kde and in ratpoison, happens both places. (although it happens much more
frequently in kde than in ratpoison)

I captured a core dump at one point which led me to believe that the
hotkey used to switch was being seen by gvim, and gvim was freaking out on
it.

I found that it never crashes if you move the mouse outside of the gvim
window, then hit a hotkey to switch.

just wondering if anyone else had seen this.

I did see someone had filed a bug in the gentoo bugzilla about it, but the
gentoo vim maintainer was having trouble duplicating it.