Re: [arch-general] Vim update - Stray chars on file-new

2017-08-23 Thread Darshit Shah via arch-general
* David C. Rankin [170824 03:44]: All, After vim update to 8.0.0987-1, creating a new file with 'vim somefile.txt' results in the following stray characters at the top of the file: $q q ~ I have seen something like this for a while on server. I thought it was some misconfigured display setti

Re: [arch-general] Vim update - Stray chars on file-new

2017-08-23 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 08/23/2017 09:44 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > After vim update to 8.0.0987-1, creating a new file with 'vim somefile.txt' > results in the following stray characters at the top of the file: > > $q q > ~ > > Can someone confirm? > I can confirm that it's just you. :) -- Eli Sc

Re: [arch-general] Contributions to the wiki - Are user contributions a thing of the past?

2017-08-23 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 08/23/2017 09:54 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Does Arch still want user contribution to the wiki? If so, systematically > deleting the contributions that users take the time to make, isn't going to > promote further contribution. Why bother, more than likely it will just be > erased Your

Re: [arch-general] Contributions to the wiki - Are user contributions a thing of the past?

2017-08-23 Thread Jason Ryan via arch-general
On 23/08/17 at 08:54pm, David C. Rankin wrote: Archdevs, When I see an wiki page that is unclear or could benefit from a small addition, for the past 7+ years I've tried to do my part, and I was happy to do so. But, consistently, for the past year or so, any user contributions to the wiki are

Re: [arch-general] Contributions to the wiki - Are user contributions a thing of the past?

2017-08-23 Thread Doug Newgard
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:54:35 -0500 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > The latest being a small addition to the multilib page to make clear that > following repo addition and update you need to explicitly install the wanted > multilib packages. Following the directions on the page as it exists gets you

[arch-general] Contributions to the wiki - Are user contributions a thing of the past?

2017-08-23 Thread David C. Rankin
Archdevs, When I see an wiki page that is unclear or could benefit from a small addition, for the past 7+ years I've tried to do my part, and I was happy to do so. But, consistently, for the past year or so, any user contributions to the wiki are systematically struct from the pages. The l

[arch-general] Vim update - Stray chars on file-new

2017-08-23 Thread David C. Rankin
All, After vim update to 8.0.0987-1, creating a new file with 'vim somefile.txt' results in the following stray characters at the top of the file: $q q ~ Can someone confirm? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.