Bug#552085: vim-scripts: gnupg plugin fails if /bin/sh is a link to dash instead of bash

James Vega jamessan at debian.org
Wed Jan 27 04:26:16 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 07:28:31AM +0100, Michael Kaaden wrote:
> When I deleted the following line in my .vimrc, the bug disapperad:
>   set shell=csh          " shell to use

Ah, that's the culprit.  With that, I now see the problem.  I'll send a
patch upstream.

> This line had no negative impact when /bin/sh is linked to /bin/bash,
> but the link to /bin/dash leads to problems.
> 
> As it seems the bug only appears if one has a strange configuration file
> (I don't even remember why I set this option), so it should probably be
> closed.

Well, it was a strange configuration in your scenario, but it will still
break for people that are actually using csh.  Thanks for the info!

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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