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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
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References: <95Jul14.213710.5319@ne.snafu.de> <3u7d8p$bdi@agate.berkeley.edu> <3u882m$afk@bell.maths.tcd.ie>
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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