Ok, I have a problem that has (seemingly randomly) appeared again. When I am typing, some spots in a file will decide everything I type is going to try and...
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Gary Johnson
garyjohn@...
Oct 3, 2003 9:04 pm
... The file's timestamp is kept in the inode, not in the directory, so changing a file's contents should not affect the directory. If I have set nobackup set...
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Douglas E Cook
douglascook@...
Oct 3, 2003 9:06 pm
... If your system can run "vim32", why do you want "vim16"? ... This is very easy. Assume that you've already built the DOS version of vim.exe, and renamed...
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Keith Roberts
kroberts@...
Oct 3, 2003 9:31 pm
... Creating a swapfile shouldn't matter either, as long as 'directory' doesn't contain ".". Patchmode might be causing the problem if it is set, since the...
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Gary Johnson
garyjohn@...
Oct 3, 2003 11:03 pm
... I didn't intend that to be a solution--I was only trying to verify my assertion that modifying a file on a Unix file system does not change the directory...
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Roboco Sanchez
roboco2004@...
Oct 4, 2003 7:16 am
... USA Exactly, that why I said your solution solved the problem of directory timestamp. On your Win2k you should try not to set those instead and set...
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Mikolaj Machowski
mikmach@...
Oct 4, 2003 7:17 am
... In file vimlogo.xpm itself. Everything is repeated. static char *vimlogo[] = { with whole description } m. -- LaTeX + Vim =...
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Roboco Sanchez
roboco2004@...
Oct 4, 2003 7:22 am
... USA You solution does solve the problem of directory timestamp but you won't have the backup file in your backup dir. I would still want both swapfile and ...
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Roboco Sanchez
roboco2004@...
Oct 4, 2003 7:23 am
... In fact, it does. ... It's not strange. But it's not the way it should be either. You're editing file not directory. ... Not with "set backupdir" or "set...
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Roboco Sanchez
roboco2004@...
Oct 4, 2003 7:23 am
It does happen on Linux as well. Robo. ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search ...
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Giuseppe Bilotta
gip.bilotta@...
Oct 4, 2003 9:56 am
... Because I might start in pure DOS mode and vim32 wouldn't work. ... Precisely. I also think that someone who wants to have all versions in a package won't...
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Giuseppe Bilotta
gip.bilotta@...
Oct 4, 2003 9:57 am
... I don't know the details about ext2 but I think it's a feature in all modern filesystems. It doesn't happen on FAT/FAT32 systesm, that I know of (at least...
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Roboco Sanchez
roboco2004@...
Oct 4, 2003 11:21 am
... On FAT/FAT32: if you create a new file or dir the timestamp of the dir in which you're creating the new file/dir won't change. On NTFS/ExtN/General *NIX...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 4, 2003 12:29 pm
... That's weird. Don't know how this happened. It's easy to fix. -- From "know your smileys": ...---... SOS /// Bram Moolenaar -- Bram@... --...
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Roboco Sanchez
roboco2004@...
Oct 4, 2003 2:25 pm
... It shouldn't matter what OS you're using. You're changing content of a file not a directory. I've never come across any OS that changes directory timestamp...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 4, 2003 2:45 pm
... When you use a backup file in the same directory then Vim will create a new file, thus the directory will change. If you tell Vim not to use a backup...
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Roboco Sanchez
roboco2004@...
Oct 4, 2003 3:12 pm
... The problem is Vim still causes directory timestamp to change even though you tell it to write backup file and swap file somewhere else. And that's why I...
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David Brown
vim@...
Oct 4, 2003 3:44 pm
... - Writing with a backup file temporarily creates a file in the directory. This touches the directory. - The swap file is created in the current directory....
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David Brown
vim@...
Oct 4, 2003 3:49 pm
... You probably forgot to 'set backupcopy=yes'. Without that, vim still tries to rename, even if the backup file is in a different directory. I just tested...
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Roboco Sanchez
roboco2004@...
Oct 4, 2003 4:49 pm
... The archiver RAR and TAR both do restore directory timestamps. Let me try your solution, Dave. Cheers, Robo. __________________________________ Do you...
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Roboco Sanchez
roboco2004@...
Oct 4, 2003 5:02 pm
... Dave, that's great! How could I miss that backupcopy! Many thanks to you, and to everyone else as well. Cheers, Robo. __________________________________ Do...
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scott
toothpik@...
Oct 5, 2003 4:53 pm
group-- is there a trick to compiling gvim w perl 5.80? i don't need it for anything specific, but any tool is better IMHO with more powerful other tools built...
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Miroslaw Dobrzanski-N...
mne@...
Oct 6, 2003 7:44 am
Hi, recently I've discovered the following problem given a text file latin1.txt with the following content ... vi: set fenc=latin1 : abc ... when I start...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 6, 2003 8:13 pm
... Because you change the 'fileencoding' after the file has been read. Note that Vim won't re-encode the file, only the option value is changed. This means...
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Miroslaw Dobrzanski-N...
mne@...
Oct 7, 2003 7:10 am
... When I use vim -R or simple view I'm not goiong to modify the file. Besides setting my locale to different values than the viewed file I make no changes to...
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Mike Williams
mike.williams@...
Oct 7, 2003 10:14 am
... [snip] ... Nah, they wouldn't do that would they? ;-) ... Pass. Based on just looking at Spy++'s window list on my machine I would guess I have over 100...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 7, 2003 10:19 am
... As I explained, changing the value of 'fileencoding' changes the file (as it would be written). ... The modeline settings are used after reading the file,...
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Michael Wookey
vimdev@...
Oct 8, 2003 12:30 am
Hi, ... I have made one fix to my previous patch. If the gvim window ever loses focus, it reverts to the original behaviour of invalidating the window when...
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Michael Wookey
vimdev@...
Oct 8, 2003 1:19 am
... I forgot to qualify - this text corruption will only occur when there is another window obscuring gvim while gvim has scrolling output and does not have...
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esp@...
Oct 8, 2003 4:58 am
hey, I was wondering, when I type: unmenu * in a win32 gui, it doesn't get rid of the menus, it just blackens them out (so I can't use them). Since the main...
