Re: [gentoo-user] Vim puts command in when starting up

[Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com>]

On 09/23/2016 02:33 PM, William Ernesto Cárdenas Gómez wrote:
> El Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:24:02 -0700
> Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com> escribió:
>> On 09/23/2016 08:00 AM, pc0147 Sistemas Will_ecg wrote:
>>> El jue, 22-09-2016 a las 08:32 -0700, Daniel Frey escribió:  
>>>> For some reason, on one box, whenever I start vim it puts
>>>> ":0000/0000/0000" on the command line. I've looked in vimrc and
>>>> can't see any reference to this. Hitting Enter yields "E486:
>>>> Pattern not found
>>>> :0000"
>>>>
>>>> I've noticed that it's been behaving strangely but I cannot figure
>>>> out
>>>> the cause. Last time I noticed something odd was when I commented
>>>> out something in package.mask (with #) and saved it. Portage
>>>> complained it
>>>> was invalid and when I opened it again the '#' changed to 'g'.
>>>>
>>>> I've removed and reinstalled vim packages, no luck.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone seen this?
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>  
>>>
>>> I had the same problem, the only solution I found was to add the
>>> vimrc for user ~.vimrc and at least set one thing. I only set the
>>> colorscheme and now works fine, the problem is that you should set
>>> it for all your users, in my case was my personal user and root.
>>>   
>>
>> I tried this, with "set nowrap" in a .vimrc, and it made no
>> difference. What I find baffling is that out of six machines only one
>> is doing this!
>>
>> Dan
>>
> 
> I've just test again, and I tried with some other options and only
> works with colorscheme. I don't know why.
> 

You are right, this works. I wonder why? I'll look around for a bug report.

Dan