Old versions of vim hang on start unless $VIMBLACKLIST is non empty

[marknsikora]

Bug was introduced in commit 9a40364. When the VIMBLACKLIST env var is empty, startup hangs indefinitely in the pathogen#is_disabled function. Only seems to be an issue in old versions of vim. Version 7.0.237 has this problem but 7.4 series does not.

[tpope]

I can reproduce, and also get weird error dumps if I poke at it. No idea what the root cause is but it's easy enough to work around.

[tpope]

7.0.305 was my test case, for future reference.

[ameidatou]

This still doesn't work in my vim:
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0 (2006 May 7, compiled Nov 12 2010 05:24:19)
Included patches: 1, 3-4, 7-9, 11, 13-17, 19-26, 29-31, 34-44, 47, 50-56, 58-64, 66-73, 75, 77-92, 94-107, 109, 202, 234-237
Modified by bugzilla@redhat.com
Compiled by bugzilla@redhat.com
Huge version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):

As a workaround I'm running vim with the below command:
$ VIMBLACKLIST='Y' vim

[tpope]

Are you using the latest from GitHub? The workaround has not made it into a stable release.

[ameidatou]

Yes I'm using the latest, and I checked the commit that closed the issue and it's in the version I'm using but vim still hangs.

[LeoGalleguillos]

Using pathogen with Vim 7.0 also hangs for me. The solution, as mentioned above, was:

export VIMBLACKLIST=Y
vim

I'm on CentOS 5, so Vim 7.0 is the latest version of Vim available for now. We'll upgrade to CenOS 6 or 7 sometime during 2016.

Any chance we could get a patch for this in the meantime?

[tpope]

Yes, please do send a patch.

[nschley]

With all due respect to @LeoGalleguillos, I think his solution is somewhat shallow, especially as this ticket is remaining open so for all intelligent civilization to review. I propose the following revision, to incorporate a little valuation.

export VIMBLACKLIST=TIM.P_ROCKS
vim

Thanks for sharing your work, Tim!