Hello I have been a vi user for a long while, but this is the first time I had been using vim plugins. Vim plugins force me to stray from the regular vi key mappings (via :set nocompatible), but right now apart from the fact that the plugins make vim sluggish, these are the least of my worries.
Since I am new to plugins, the commands used to install the plugins from GIT were: > cd ~ > git clone http://github.com/thenovices/dotfiles > ln –s dotfiles/.vim* . > git clone https://github.com/gmarik/vundle .vim/bundle/vundle > vim +BundleInstall +qall The last command ("vim +BundleInstall +qall") had what appeared to be some error messages, but they went by to fast to examine them. When plugins are enabled, the worst problem that seems to occur is that it appears as though the last session repeats regardless of the file edited. Vim jumps seemingly randomly around the file I am editing, inserting random numbers, and repeatedly emptying its paste buffer (from earlier sessions) in random places in my new file (which have nothing to do with whatever was in the paste buffer). It is as if it is attempting a recovery process on files which need no such recovery. I have tried this across two operating systems, and the plugins fail in both Cygwin and in Linux. I am usually forced to abandon the dotfiles installation by moving the directory to _dotfiles. Then, vim behaves normally, but without the dotfiles "goodies". I have more recently found settings.vim to be the culprit, and commenting out these lines have helped, but to a point: "set timeoutlen=250 " Time to wait after ESC "set timeoutlen=600 "set ttimeoutlen=50 "set viminfo='10,\"100,:20,%,n~/.viminfo " Use viminfo "set wildmenu "set wildmode=list:longest,full " bash-like command line tab completion I commented out the first three because I just don't like timeouts. Just give me factory defaults. The last three make me more leery: .viminfo seems to have a list of vim commands when I looked at it, so in my mind it had no business being there. Commented out. I looked at the help for wildmenu. I commented it out because I thought that it too was un-necessary for a vi session. Basically, I still don't know what causes the random text to insert itself, and I don't seem to have completely gotten rid of the problem. Random text now mostly appears mostly in the status bar, out of the way of the text of the file, but some random text insertions are still observed once in a while. This is still unacceptable, since the amount of random text insertions was zero before the installation. Has anyone ever encountered this before, and what did you do about it? Paul -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
