Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:15:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: Olivier Perron Reply-To: Olivier Perron To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Computer freeze when using latest version of vim and bash as inferior shell Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk Hello, I have sometimes a computer freeze when I use vim version 5.2 with the DJGPP port of bash as inferior shell in a DOS box under Windows 95. By the way, what is vim ? Vim stands for Vi Improved, so it's a Vi like text editor (yes, I'm crazy :) ). Nevertheless vim compiles out of the box with DJGPP and I used to use it for a long time now. I never had such a problem with previous versions of vim. Only the latest 5.2 version causes the freeze problem. Under a DOS box with command.com as inferior shell, it seems that the problem does not appear. Till now, I've not discovered a regular sequence under vim wich will systematically trig the problem. I still have the feeling that it occurs randomly. Sometimes I can do a complete edit session without problem, and sometimes I get a freeze after a few seconds or when I want to save and quit. I already send a similar message to the vim mailing list and the vim maintainer think (and so do I) that it might be a bad interaction between bash and vim (maybe something that vim do and that make bash crash). So, I'm not a vim guru, nor a bash one, what can I do in order to find what is the real problem ? Olivier.