On 2020-12-07 11:06, Eric Connor via Cygwin wrote:
I have been experiencing an issue where I’m trying to format columns in vim
using: :*%!column –t*, which had been working great.
At some point I had to update Cygwin, and (not correlating it to a possible
update issue, until recently) found that this command has been returning
“shell returned 127” error.
Today, I tested whether this command would work on a server (with a version
of mlos), and found that it worked.
The version of vim on my server is considerably older than my Cygwin
version:
Server: 7.4
Local: 8.2
Is there a way to either back-rev vim further (if an old install repo
existed, that would be ideal), or someone review what was updated to make
vim not happy with the column command?
I also compared both versions of the column command, and they were the same
on both my server *and* my local workstion...thus my conclusion that this
seems to be a vim-related matter.
I was successful in back-reving to 8.1, simply because I had the previous
setup file for Cygwin, but older versions are a bit more difficult to
locate...and I'm doubtful that going back much further wouldn't cause
damage to my current setup.
Probably little to do with vim, mostly to do with either Cygwin Setup or PATH,
so check the below and your PATH, your PATH within vim, and your Cygwin Setup logs:
$ uname -srvmo
CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.1.7(0.340/5/3) 2020-08-22 17:48 x86_64 Cygwin
$ which column
/usr/bin/column
$ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/column
util-linux-2.33.1-2
$ cygcheck -c util-linux
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
util-linux 2.33.1-2 OK
$ which vim
/usr/bin/vim
$ cygcheck -c vim
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
vim 8.2.0486-1 OK
$ echo $PATH
$ vim +'echo $PATH'
$ vim +'!which column'
/usr/bin/column
Press ENTER or type command to continue
$ l /var/log/setup.log*
/var/log/setup.log /var/log/setup.log.full
and it may be worthwhile rerunning Cygwin Setup to install any patched or
upgraded packages and clean up any issues.
If you see anything you don't understand, please post the above commands and
output, plus any other commands and questionable output, and follow the problem
reporting guidelines below (copy and trim large files if possible, and attach as
text).
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