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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail 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. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3u882m$afk@bell.maths.tcd.ie> References: <95Jul14.213710.5319@ne.snafu.de> <3u7d8p$bdi@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie 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 -- Colman Reilly (creilly@maths.tcd.ie) [+353-(0)1-7022280] c/o School of Mathematics,18.05 Westland Row,Trinity College,Dublin. PGP Public Key on Request MIME OK "Nothing so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength."