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On 6/30/2011 6:30 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>
> The strace command interferes
> with vim so that it won't recognize ESC to allow the ":" to be
> recognized, so I can't ":wq!" as requested.

Easy fix:

     $ strace -o vim.trace vim-nox -c q /etc/hosts

That causes it to go through the full motions of loading up /etc/hosts, 
then automatically quit, all while strace watches.

It doesn't segv here, by the way.  Up-to-date Cygwin install, Vista 64.

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