HELP: Newbie with Vim problems

[Albert Hurd <ahurd@home.com>]

 I am getting a lot of erratic behavior
in gvim (vim-5.3 and also 5.1-see 4.). Here is a list:

1. I went into vim. Seems to work ok. Then go into gui mode and the
cursor doesn't work properly, and : doesnt take me to command mode. On
exit I get the following:

 Warning:
    Name: subMenu
    Class: XmCascadeButton
    CascadeButton's parent is not a valid menu widget

Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
Vim: preserving files...
Vim: Finished

2. I executed gvim.  When I went to FILE and then to OPEN and got the
Edit File popup, the program aborted with the  "Vim: Caught deadly
signal SEGV" message when I either doubleclicked or clicked OK on a
highlighted file.



3. Again in gvim, I hit File and Open. At popup menu, I hit Cancel, and
program froze. Couldn't even remove it with the usual clickoff button.

Here is the output from :version.

:version
VIM - Vi IMproved 5.3 (1998 Aug 30, compiled Oct  5 1998 23:31:42)
Compiled with (+) or without (-):
+autocmd +browse ++builtin_terms +cindent +cscope +dialog_con_gui
+digraphs
+emacs_tags +eval +ex_extra +extra_search +farsi +file_in_path -filetype

+find_in_path +fork() +GUI_Motif +insert_expand +langmap +lispindent
+modify_fname +mouse +mouse_dec +mouse_netterm +mouse_xterm +multi_byte
-perl
+quickfix -python +rightleft +showcmd +smartindent -sniff +syntax
+tag_binary
+tag_old_static -tag_any_white -tcl +terminfo +textobjects
+user-commands
+viminfo +wildignore +writebackup -xterm_save +X11
   system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
     user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
      user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
  system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
    user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
    system menu file: "$VIM/menu.vim"
    default for $VIM: "/usr/local/share/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -DUSE_GUI_MOTIF
-DFUNCPROTO=15
-DNARROWPROTO -I/usr/include/X11 -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -Wall -Wshadow

-I/usr/
X11R6/include
Linking: gcc  -o vim -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib   -lXext -lXm
-lXt -lX11
 -lncurses

4. I tried vim-5.1. I get the following cursor problem. PgDwn and PgUp
dont work, and cursor arrows must be pressed approximately 8 times
before responding with one space movement.

I am using the xfce windows manager on Linux 2.0(Debian 1.3.1). I ran
make test and everything reported OK.

 Could you help me correct the problem-I would like to get Vim to
work but am a little frustrated. Thanks very much.

Albert Hurd