patch 8.0.1020: when a timer calls getchar(1) input is overwritten commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/0f0f230012f5a9beb6876158a17b432534836c6f Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Wed Aug 30 18:52:56 2017 +0200 patch 8.0.1020: when a timer calls getchar(1) input is overwritten Problem: When a timer calls getchar(1) input is overwritten. Solution: Increment tb_change_cnt in inchar(). (closes https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1940)

README_src.txt for version 8.0 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.0-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!