On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 10:49:35PM -0400, sean wrote:
> Hi,
> First off, thanks for a great editor! Sorry to be dropping in with a
> problem ;o)
>
> When I start the Vim beta here[1] things work great. However, dropping
> to the shell with :sh and then trying to start another copy of vim
> results in a crash. Same thing happens when doing :!vim, that is:
>
> Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
> Vim: Finished.
>
> The backtrace[2] lead me to suspect a problem with my .vimrc. Sure
> enouch if I remove it, everything works as expected. However, even
> an empty .vimrc causes the problem, so its not some quirk based on
> the contents of my .vimrc.
>
> Happy to help do further testing if it's needed.
>
> Thanks again,
> Sean
>
> [1] Fedora Core 5 + vim from development: vim-enhanced-7.0.d001-1,
> vim-common-7.0.d001-1, vim-minimal-7.0.d001-1, vim-X11-7.0.d001-1
This was fixed in vim 7.0d002 or 7.0d003. It should certainly work
in the latest, vim 7.0e.
HTH --Benji Fisher