[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1
Frank Fesevur
ffes@users.sourceforge.net
Wed Oct 11 17:15:00 GMT 2006
At 11-10-2006 18:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 11 17:56, Frank Fesevur wrote:
>> At 10-10-2006 10:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.0.122-1.
>>>
>>> This is an update to the latest patchlevel 122. Cygwin Vim still builds
>> >from the vanilla sources.
>>
>> I'm still having problems editing /etc/hosts. Also see my earlier report
>> in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00277.html
>>
>> It probably is because /etc/hosts is a symlink. It is not a major
>> problem, but a but annoying.
>
> In my case it's a symlink, too and I don't have problems editing it.
> The "Cannot create swap file" message is often an indicator that
> the directory in which vim tries to write the swap file is read-only.
> See ":help directory" and ":set dir". Note especially the meaning
> of the single dot path "." in this variable.
Look at the archives again. For some reason this reply was not linked to
my original post: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00279.html
I've tried his test case and Mark is right. When a symlink is created
with a win32 path, vim can not create the swapfile. When a symlink is
created with POSIX filenames there is no problem.
Regards,
Frank
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