vmcat syntax error

[rinchen]

Howdy,

I have a file that contains

# The first entry in this file is the destination config file
~/.ssh/config

and when I "less" that file, I see:

1 ./vimcat: 80: ./vimcat: Syntax error: "(" unexpected                                                                                                                                                     

[rkitover]

Can you please give me your OS, distribution and version please?

[rkitover]

Never mind, I have a temporary fix in master.

[rinchen]

@rkitover Ubuntu Vivid Beta 2. I can also get this to fail on man files and my mutt ldap rc file:

# hostname of your ldap server
$ldap_server = 'xxx'

I'm guessing it's having trouble with special characters.

[rinchen]

e.g. man chsh

[rinchen]

@rkitover current master locks up gnome-terminal when I encounter one of those files. No error, just becomes unresponsive.

ps. Thanks for vimpager. I never realized how much I love it and use it until it doesn't work :-)

[rkitover]

I am going to completely rewrite this part of the code today. Hopefully it will work better after that. I'm sorry my temporary fix didn't help you, it helped someone else in issue #11 .

In the meantime, try adding this to your .vimrc :

let vimpager_passthrough = 0

[rinchen]

FWIW, This seems to fail for me only on Ubuntu Vivid. It doesn't fail on OS X or Ubuntu 14.04. I am using spf13's vim distro in all places.

[rkitover]

Weird because I just upgraded my xubuntu 14.04 to vivid and I did not see the issue, but I will try that VM image once I rewrite the passthrough code.

[rkitover]

I installed the spf13 dist on my ubuntu vm, and I noticed that the paging keys in less.vim do not work at all. And I reproduced your issue with short files in passthrough mode. I will see if I can fix this.

[rkitover]

The issue with short files and passthrough mode on vivid with spf13 seems to be fixed, now that I rewrote that code.

I still need to figure out how to get less.vim to work correctly with spf13.

[rinchen]

This works sooooo much better now. The recent changes have fixed this. Thanks!