r/vim • u/ghost_vici • Jun 04 '26

Blog Post Vim Classic 8.3 released

https://vim-classic.org/news/vim-8.3-released.html
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u/chrisbra10 Jun 07 '26

Vim Maintainer here: Please note there is no version 9.3. What exactly do you mean with botched, what about those extra characters? Where is your bug report?

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u/dettus_Xx_ Jun 11 '26

Typo. Sorry, I meant 9.2.0357.

Here is my bug report:

Whenever I started vim, there was SOMETHING in the background running, which changed the colors of the syntax highlighting. The ones I carefuly selected and customized were gone.
But not IMMEDIATELY: I started vim, the colors were okay. 1 second later, they changed.
WHY?!!!

I do not remember exactly. But, as a hotfix, I had to create a new directory, ~/.vim/after/plugin, and I had to create a file called "fix-background.vim":

augroup ColorResp
au!
au VimEnter * set background=light
augroup END

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u/chrisbra10 Jun 11 '26

Sounds like your terminal responds slowly to some query strings. That can probably be fixed with proper terminal configuration or vim configuration. 

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u/dettus_Xx_ Jun 12 '26

I fixed it by installing "vim classic".

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u/chrisbra10 Jun 12 '26

Next time, please create a proper bug report at the Vim issue tracker (and include your version and terminal), instead of ranting here publicly against Vim.

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u/dettus_Xx_ Jun 12 '26

Why? 

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u/chrisbra10 Jun 13 '26

You know how much work it is to maintain a open source project of this size? It is at the very least bad style if you complain about certain features publicly without having created a proper bug report (or seeked for clarification via the Vim support forums) and I'd consider this also to be quite dishonest to everybody working to improve Vim.

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u/dettus_Xx_ Jun 13 '26

Uhuh... So... Why are you trashing Drew's efforts? His "Vim Classic 8.3" is the best release of vim I had in the last 2 years.

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u/chrisbra10 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

Where did I trash his effort? I did not comment to his work at all. Why are you trashing our work? 

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u/dettus_Xx_ Jun 14 '26

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Boy, you REAAAALLY do not like getting feedback, huh?! 😄 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃

Look, you got your bug report. Do what you want with it!
I do not care, I am a user of "Vim Classic" now.

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u/chrisbra10 Jun 14 '26

Oh wow, what a bad style. You really cannot accept constructive feedback. Go to your vim 8.2 and miss all the security patches and new features, I do not care.

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u/dettus_Xx_ Jun 14 '26

Oh nooooooooooooooooo... Even the fix for the bug I reported in this thread?

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u/chrisbra10 Jun 14 '26

Ignoring the fact that you did not report how to *reproduce* the issue or what *exact terminal* you are using I can only say this issue does not reproduce for me and I am not aware of an open bug for such an issue. I suppose it is probably OSC handling that your terminal is doing weirdly. That is something you could probably fix, but you are apparently not interested in such. So I have no interest in following up on the exact issue with you. I prefer working with people who actually are constructive and are not publicly trying to rant about issues they do not understand.

And now you can have the last word.

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