Re: [ATTN maintainer] vim 9.1.1825 archive filetype processing scripts not working properly

Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Dec 2025 17:11:21 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.cygwin.applications
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 01/12/2025 18:02, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> After latest gvim 9.1.1825 install (no announcement on list nor useful 
> release notes other than GH vim/vim repo log) opening archives e.g zip 
> with autoload script zip.vim displays three copies of zip archive header 
> vim script comments followed by three copies of lists of files for 
> selection:
> 
> " zip.vim version v34
> " Browsing zipfile .../Downloads/xxhash.zip
> " Select a file with cursor and press ENTER
> " zip.vim version v34
> " Browsing zipfile .../Downloads/xxhash.zip
> " Select a file with cursor and press ENTER
> " zip.vim version v34
> " Browsing zipfile .../Downloads/xxhash.zip
> " Select a file with cursor and press ENTER
> 
> xxhash/
> ...
> xxhash/
> ...
> xxhash/
> ...
> 
> similar issues with some other archive types I tried - not recorded as I 
> was testing latest lesspipe update installed and trying to use gvim/ 
> gview/less.vim for comparisons and other work with various compressed 
> archives and files.
> 
> Rolled back to previous release 9.1.1054 and issues went away.
> 

Hi Brian

This seems an upstream issue and 9.1.1825 is the last stable,
more or less , see https://www.vim.org/download.php

I will look to put latest tags as test, but vim is making 10 tags every 
two days, https://github.com/vim/vim/tags
so not easy to follow.

Nothing obvious on
https://github.com/vim/vim/issues