On 27 Mar 2009, at 15:33, björn wrote:
> > Hi Ken, > > 2009/3/27 Kenneth Reid Beesley: >> >> I'm running MacVim Snapshot 43 on OS X 10.5.6 >> >> When I invoke :help commands in gvim, e.g. >> >> :help 'keymap' >> >> then gvim freezes. >> >> Am I doing something wrong? > > Thank you for putting it so nicely (instead of something like "this > st**pid piece of *### crashed again")...my feelings are not hurt. ;-) Hello Björn, MacVim is wonderful, and you (and everyone else who has had anything to do with it) have my eternal thanks. I also develop and maintain software, so I know that attitude is everything in problem reports. > > > Some questions for you: > > 1. Is this happening every time you invoke help or is it intermittent? Testing again, the freezing seems to happen consistently with certain help topics, e.g. :help or :help quickref or :help doc-file-list or :help keymap or :help help then gvim freezes (and I need to ForceQuit). But :help lCursor returns a message E149: Sorry, no help for lCursor and the window does not freeze. I suppose it could easily be caused by something I slipped, inexpertly, into my .vimrc or .gvimrc. (???) I'm no Vim guru. Or perhaps my help files are corrupted in some way??? > > 2. Have you tried starting without plugins/rc-files (use "mvim -u > NONE")? I can launch 'mvim -u NONE' and a window comes up. (7.2.108, Snapshot 43). If I then invoke :help keymap and press ENTER, the cursor freezes after 'keymap', there is no further response. Again I have to ForceQuit MacVim. > > 3. Can you describe what exactly you mean by "gvim freezes" (is only > one window affected or do all open windows freeze...can you quit > MacVim)? If I launch one gvim (7.2.108, Snapshot 43), it appears quickly. If I then invoke File > New Window to create another gvim window, it comes up rather slowly, taking about 45 seconds. That seems unusual. If I invoke something like ':help keymap' in the first gvim window, it freezes; but the second window is not frozen. I can still type into the second window. ForceQuit kills both windows. The same thing happens if I invoke 'help keymap' in the second window. It freezes, but the first gvim window remains active. > > 4. Are there any messages logged to the console (open Console.app and > look around)? I see no relevant message when I open Console.app. > > 5. Does the problem occur in terminal mode as well (enter > "/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim" in Terminal, assuming > you've put MacVim.app in "/Applications")? Yes, MacVim.app is in /Applications. This brings up 7.2.108 in the Terminal, and :help keymap freezes the window again. However, with vim, in a Terminal, I can simply close the Terminal (I don't have to ForceQuit). > > > At the moment nothing comes to mind as to what could be causing this. I appreciate your help, Ken > > > Björn > > > ****************************** Kenneth R. Beesley, D.Phil. P.O. Box 540475 North Salt Lake, UT 84054 USA --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
