Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 225123
:%! does not update display/buffer
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:54 EST
Description of problem: After I filter current buffer by `:%!tr . y' the command succeeds but both the display and the buffer remain unchanged. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vim-common-7.0.188-3.i386 vim-enhanced-7.0.188-3.i386 vim-minimal-7.0.188-3.i386 (Updated+rebooted RawHide.i386.) How reproducible: Almost always, in 20% of cases it is working, adding more newlines to the buffer before `:%!' etc. may possibly improve the reproducibility Steps to Reproduce: 1. (possibly delete ~/.vimrc ~/.bashrc for clean environment) 2. /bin/vi or /usr/bin/vim 3. iXXX<Esc>:%!tr . y 4. Possibly also: /y Actual results: Displayed buffer still contains XXX. Search for `X' finds it (`y' fails). Expected results: Displayed buffer should contain yyy. Search for `y' finds it. Additional info: My last tested working version was 6.4.007-4.i386.
Deleting vimrc isn't required, just start vim with '-u NONE -U NONE' VIm works like expected on my system. What are your $TERM $LANG settings and which terminal are you using (linux-console, konsole, gnome-terminal,...) ? Does Ctrl-l (L) refesh the screen so that the changes made by tr are visible ?
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal TERM=xterm LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C gnome-terminal-2.17.90-1.fc7.i386 It should not be a displaying problem - I wrote above the search for `y' fails (sure I also tried CTRL-L, flip to other page etc.). You should try it 2-5 times times - it is not 100% reproducible. OK, going to check it locally more asi it breaks my various macros. (-u/-U - thanks although I just wanted to assure I do not have some broken stuff there.)
Sorry the report was completely invalid. Sure "tr . y" does not translate any character as tr(1) does not use regex. I just tried to minimize the reproducibility case and... The bug is just broken gnome-terminal(1) displaying, going to check elsewhere.