Hello Björn,
Got it!
Many thanks for persevering with me. You, Derek Wyatt and others in
the vim community are very supportive, and this is much appreciated.
It was something in my ~/.vim directory. Renaming .vimrc and .gvimrc
didn't change anything, but as soon as I renamed .vim to my-vim,
the :help problem went away. I then renamed my-vim back to .vim, cd-
ed into .vim, and starting renaming the subdirectories, trying to
identify the exact problem. I had a directory .vim/doc/ containing
two files: 'xml-plugin.txt' and 'tags'. As soon as I renamed
the .vim/doc/ directory, the whole :help problem went away.
If I mv my-doc back to doc, and rename 'tags', then again the problem
goes away. Here's the content of .vim/doc/tags
!_TAG_FILE_ENCODING utf-8 //
xml-plugin-callbacks xml-plugin.txt /*xml-plugin-callbacks*
xml-plugin-html xml-plugin.txt /*xml-plugin-html*
xml-plugin-mappings xml-plugin.txt /*xml-plugin-mappings*
xml-plugin-settings xml-plugin.txt /*xml-plugin-settings*
I don't understand it all, to be sure, but it looks like something to
do with the 'tags' and 'xml-plugin.txt' files that I got somewhere. I
can't remember where I got them, or why I placed them in .vim/docs/
I was probably trying to customize (g)vim for better editing of XML
files.
Thanks again. You're heros.
Ken
On 13 Apr 2009, at 06:06, björn wrote:
>
> 2009/4/10 Kenneth Reid Beesley:
>>
>> OK. I was using Snapshot 43.
>> I discarded 43, then downloaded and installed Snapshot 44 and got the
>> same behavior.
>>
>> I then downloaded MacVim-7_2-stable-1_2 and, again, got the same
>> behavior.
>>
>> I'm again wondering if I inadvertently did something in my .vimrc
>> or .gvimrc that is causing the problem.
>
> Starting with "-u NONE" should have excluded the possibility that
> something in your rc-files are interfering but lets try again just to
> be on the safe side. Rename your rc-files and .vim directory (e.g.
> "mv .vimrc my-vimrc", "mv .vim myvim", etc.) and delete your .viminfo
> file ("rm .viminfo") and clear your MacVim preferences ("defaults
> delete org.vim.MacVim"). Then restart MacVim and see what happens.
>
> Still crashing? Start "Activity Monitor", locate the crashed Vim
> process in the list (it is called "Vim", but there will be more than
> one if you have two or more windows open in MacVim), select it and
> click the "Sample Process" button. Copy/paste the text and maybe that
> will give me some clue as to why it is stuck.
>
> Also, as another sanity check try opening a help file manually by
> entering ":fin $VIMRUNTIME/doc/help.txt". Does that work?
>
> I must admit I am running out of ideas... :/
>
> Ok, one more idea: open the advanced preferences and deselect "Launch
> Vim processes in a login shell". Quit, reopen MacVim and try ":help"
> again. Any difference?
>
> Björn
>
> >
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North Salt Lake, UT
84054 USA
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