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Zoom is crashing MacVim :(
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Description
This is a duplicate of this SE question
If I open Macvim, everything works fine, unless I zoom in (using Cmd+"+").
If I do that, then I get a strange black boarder around the added bit of the window and the whole thing freezes.
This is what I see:

(except, bizarrely, it isn't, because I see a black boarder, the mac screenshot shows a light gray one, and the image uploaded to Github mysteriously makes it white, which suggests there's something wrong with me)
...and there is a 40 second video of the problem here: https://youtu.be/cjKWRGLSWTk, which, thankfully, shows the same black border I see. Thank you YouTube.
This appears to be part of a few linked bugs on MacVim, I have quite a lot of trouble with the display not refreshing if I've changed the zoom level while the app is already full-screen and that's quite frustrating.
What information can I give to help you replicate this?
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue in MacVim by opening a window and zooming with Cmd+"+", then compare the freeze and border with the linked Stack Exchange question and video. Done means zooming no longer freezes or crashes MacVim and the window redraws correctly.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, vim
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100