Text doesn't show up in textfield in firefox

[vexxor]

Firefox: 35.0.1

I've tried disabling all other addons and just using pterosaur with same effects, but fwiw I run a pentadactyl that I build from source ( last build a couple of days ago ).

When i enabled debugging for pterosaur, I can see a vim instance in my terminal and what I'm typing, but cannot see anything in firefox itself.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[ardagnir]

What OS/vim version are you using? Do you see any errors in the browser console (Control-Shift-J)? What happens when you type vim --serverlist?

[vexxor]

OS: Linux ( Arch Linux updated weekly, so more or less up to date ) Vim: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Feb 4 2015 08:02:36)

vim --serverlist returns nothing

I've disabled all addons except pterosaur and the js console doesn't seem to hold anything relevant ( posting just in case )

Failed to load native module at path '/usr/lib/firefox/components/libxpcomsample.so': (80004005) /usr/lib/firefox/components/libxpcomsample.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Could not read chrome manifest 'file:///usr/lib/firefox/browser/extensions/%7B972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd%7D/chrome.manifest'. While creating services from category 'profile-after-change', could not create service for entry 'MobileConnection Service', contract ID '@mozilla.org/mobileconnection/mobileconnectionservice;1' 1424423953241 Services.HealthReport.HealthReporter WARN Saved state file does not exist. 1424423953241 Services.HealthReport.HealthReporter WARN No prefs data found.

p.s. The tests above are from a version of pterosaur I installed today.

[ardagnir]

What does "vim --version | grep clientserver" return? If you get "-clientserver", you can use pacman's "gvim" package which should come with a vim with +clientserver support.

Also, can you try just running "vim --servername test" in one terminal and "vim --serverlist" in another?

[vexxor]

[vx@batmobile ~]$ vim --version | grep clientserver
+clientserver    -hangul_input    +netbeans_intg   +title

[vx@batmobile ~]$ vim --serverlist
TEST

It may have been unclear in my first post, but when i turned on pterosaur debugging I could see a vim instance in my terminal getting the text I wrote. On the firefox side, the text box just didn't display any text. This is the reason I disabled all other addons, suspecting something was clashing ( like pentadactyl, etc ).

[ardagnir]

The debugtty option uses a pipe. It doesn't require +clientserver. If you see text there, but don't see anything in vim --serverlist, it's almost certainly a clientserver problem.

Can you run ps -e e | grep pterosaur and then run vim --servername test with the same binary and all those env variables copy pasted in front? Does it still show up in serverlist? (Should look something like TERM=foo DISPLAY=bar FOO=bar /foo/bar/vim --servername test)

[nitishch]

I have a similar problem. If I enable this addon and put the cursor in a text field, Firefox hangs(it doesn't even load the webpage completely) and I have to force close it. I put the line so ~/pterosaur/content/vimbed/plugin/vimbed.vim in my .vimrc.

Output of vim --version | grep clientserver

+clientserver    -hangul_input    +netbeans_intg   +title

Any ideas why this might happen?