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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.0.5R: vim-3.0 anyone? Date: 15 Jul 1995 13:42:26 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3u8gk2$o1o@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <95Jul14.213710.5319@ne.snafu.de> <3u7d8p$bdi@agate.berkeley.edu> <3u882m$afk@bell.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3u882m$afk@bell.maths.tcd.ie>, Colman Reilly <creilly@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: >>> `Seek error in swap file read' > >Actually, what happens is that vim uses a sort of swap file itself, in which it stores what is basically a complete history of your editing session, so it's >an internal Vim error. I looked at it briefly, but I haven't had a chance to Ahhhh.. I assumed that this was a console error message Nora was reporting and figured anything talking about 'swap file reads' had to be part of the VM system! Sorry D & J - false alarm! If anyone finds a patch to the vim problem, kindly send it to ports@freebsd.org so that they can add it to the port! Thanks.. Jordan