Vim has never crashed for me. And I've been using it almost exclusively for almost ten years.
I don't use any plugins though. I haven't found a single usable plugin. They are terrible hacks. I figure vim must have an API that's difficult to integrate (it's too general a text editor. Look at the amount of built-in settings that hardly play nice with each other).
Re:Tmux and Vim – better together
by juandazapata on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:39AM
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I agree. Vim is solid as a rock. I've been using it for about 10 years and I saw it crash 2 times. On the other hand, I had to use Atom for 2 weeks and it crashed on me exactly 6 times.
Have you tried upgrading to a non-ancient vim?
It's 6 months old at most. Their distro probably doesn't even have vim 8 yet, ubuntu 16.10 doesn't.
Or, to neovim.
Actually, neovim is somewhat more prone to crashing than traditional vim, in my experience
Re:Tmux and Vim – better together
by tomsmeding on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:53AM
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Either you have a plugin that's wreaking havoc, or you have something weird in your setup, because a stable Vim version crashing is not something I've seen often.
Re:Tmux and Vim – better together
by gideonparanoid on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:21AM
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I had this problem about a month ago until I upgraded to Vim 8 - not had a segfault since.
It's also worth spring-cleaning your config/plugin setups.
I have mapped Ctrl-C to ESC and I use it often. One specific instance I have seen vim crash is when the cursor is at np.inf and I press Ctrl-C.