Vimpager blocked with no output

[step-]

Perhaps I was too quick to close #134, however vimcat filename does work on my system now, unlike vimpager filename, which blocks with no tty echo; The display issue is exactly as in #134. I can't attach a log file because the trick of adding -V21/tmp/vimlog in the vimcat script doesn't work anymore, which actually led me to a work-around and, I think, a clue as to what the issue could be.

Long story short: changed /usr/bin/vimpager line 523 like so

cp /usr/bin/vimcat vimcat; # vimcat_script

and now vimpager filename works as it should - and -V21/tmp/vimlog creates a log file.

I presume the fix you made in 2010892 didn't carry over to function vimcat_script, which seems to serve a frozen version of the vimcat script to the vimpager script. What's that for? Some sort of self-installing method for systems that have vimpager but not vimcat installed? Just curious.

[rkitover]

Yeah I bundle everything in vimpager so that it's self contained, I forgot to run make which installs everything into it, sorry, fixed now.

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Thanks. I noticed the new vimcat_script creates vimcat with permissions 775, whereas the previous one was created 755. Is that change intentional?

[rkitover]

That's just my umask on the machine I happen to run uuencode on, the perms on the root /tmp directory itself are safe so it doesn't really matter.

[step-]

Thank you.