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RE: vim 7 gives error when editing /etc/hosts
- From: "Harig, Mark" <maharig at idirect dot net>
- To: "Frank Fesevur" <ffes at users dot sourceforge dot net>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:32:49 -0400
- Subject: RE: vim 7 gives error when editing /etc/hosts
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Frank Fesevur
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 5:35 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: vim 7 gives error when editing /etc/hosts
>
> Hi,
>
> When I try to edit /etc/hosts with vim7, it gives this error:
> E303: Unable to open swap file for "hosts", recovery impossible
>
> The file can be edited, but this never happened with 6.4
>
> Regards,
> Frank
>
vim appears to be unable to follow some links.
The following steps lead to the above error for me, also.
$ touch "c:\foo.txt"
$ ln -s "c:\foo.txt" bar.txt
$ vim bar.txt # vim reports the swap-file error
On my computer, and I suspect on yours, /etc/hosts is a
symbolic link to Windows 'hosts' file:
$ ls -ln /etc/hosts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 13558 545 37 Apr 4 18:11 /etc/hosts ->
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Curiously, the link does not cause an error if it was created using
"cygwin" syntax:
$ ln -fs /c/foo.txt bar.txt # assumes that you've set the cygdrive
prefix to "/"
$ vim bar.txt # No swap-file error is reported.
Until the problem code and its solution can be identified, you
should be able to use this workaround.
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