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From: creilly@maths.tcd.ie (Colman Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0.5R: vim-3.0 anyone?
Date: 15 Jul 1995 12:16:38 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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References: <95Jul14.213710.5319@ne.snafu.de> <3u7d8p$bdi@agate.berkeley.edu>
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jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:

>In article <95Jul14.213710.5319@ne.snafu.de>,
>Nora E. Etukudo <nora@ne.Snafu.DE> wrote:
>>Hello folks.

>Hallo, Nora!

>>I've mysterious errors  on working with 'vim-3.0'  (vi-clone). If I switch
>>to any of the "Insert-Modes", I get an error message like this
>>
>>    `Seek error in swap file read'

>That is very strange!  I've forwarded your message to the VM system hackers
>in the chance that they'll be able to divine some clues from it.

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 
really spend time with it yet. I don't get any errors when I compile it.

Colman
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