On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 02:28:12PM -0400, tempforever wrote
> There seems to be some invalid character (0xa0) at the beginning of
> those lines.  Remove them, and that error should go away.

> > =A0 \ if line("'\"") >=3D 1 && line("'\"") <=3D line("$") && &ft !~# 'commit'
> > =A0 \ |=A0=A0 exe "normal! g`\"

In addition to 0xA0 at the beginning there were also 2 more between
"|" and "exe" in the last line. No clue how thwey got there. After
removing the weird characters, vim starts up properly, and both features
(indent and start at previous location) work. Thank you very much.

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