Vim unusable in 18.04, with upstream fix available

[Thomas Grainger]

This affects vim when anything displays an echo message. It's particularly
bad when using ale, which relies heavily on this feature.

On Wed, 9 May 2018, 11:28 Robie Basak, <robie.basak at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 10:53:02AM +0100, Thomas Grainger wrote:
> > Currently vim in ubuntu 18.04 is unusable (with lint plugins like
> w0rp/ale
> > [1]), There's a path available upstream [2] I've opened an ubuntu bug [3]
> > but it seems to have stagnated.
>
> Thank you for filing the bug. It sounds like this affects vim when using
> ale only, and not when just using vim alone?
>
> > Is there anywhere I can go to bump this issue?
>
> This needs a volunteer to prepare updated packaging for Ubuntu. Please
> see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess and
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates and feel free to ask here
> if you need any help.
>
> Robie
>
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