gnvim: [Bug] Netrw crashes gnvim

When I open gnvim from the terminal and go to Netrw by executing :Explore (or by any other method), it acts as expected and takes me to Netrw.

However, when I open gnvim outside of the terminal (namely executing it from Budgie’s menu), whenever I attempt to open Netrw, gnvim immediately crashes with no error message or warning.

Edit: Fixed typo

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Comments: 31 (24 by maintainers)

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…there shouldn’t be a need to handle it in gnvim, right?

It depends. Some people are seeing this bug and, without knowing the details of it, might drive them away from gnvim. This is indeed a bug that I would not want to fix in gnvim, as I’m not completely sure of the side effects - if there are any. If there are side effects, those would go unnoticed for long time.

I’m not sure if the origin of https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/10000 are known. I’d imagine that if it was, it would be fixed by now (thus any feedback for it probably is appreciated).

am in the process of building neovim 0.4.3 (and shipping package updates to my distro) 😄