Re: vim can't write /etc/hosts

2014-09-08 Thread Frank Fesevur
2014-09-07 17:00 GMT+02:00 Andrey Repin: > Adding to what other people said, most self-respecting antivirus applications > explicitly block access to system hosts file. > For obvious reasons. > If you absolutely NEED to modify it, and can't resolve your issues in any > other way, disable hosts file

Re: vim can't write /etc/hosts

2014-09-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Frank Fesevur! > On my Win81 machine I tried to edit /etc/hosts with vim. When I try to > write the file I get this error: > "/etc/hosts" E166: Can't open linked file for writing > Since /etc/hosts is a symlink to > /cygdrive/c/windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts so I tried to edit the

Re: vim can't write /etc/hosts

2014-09-05 Thread Frank Fesevur
2014-09-05 4:33 GMT+02:00 Darik Horn: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Frank Fesevur wrote: >> >> Why can't vim write the file, or even better the symlinked file? I'm >> quite sure editing the symlink works in Win7, but can try tomorrow. > > Starting "C:\Cygwin\bin\mintty.exe" through a "Run As Ad

Re: vim can't write /etc/hosts

2014-09-04 Thread Darik Horn
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Frank Fesevur wrote: > > Why can't vim write the file, or even better the symlinked file? I'm > quite sure editing the symlink works in Win7, but can try tomorrow. Starting "C:\Cygwin\bin\mintty.exe" through a "Run As Administrator" context doesn't produce an eleva

vim can't write /etc/hosts

2014-09-04 Thread Frank Fesevur
Hi, On my Win81 machine I tried to edit /etc/hosts with vim. When I try to write the file I get this error: "/etc/hosts" E166: Can't open linked file for writing Since /etc/hosts is a symlink to /cygdrive/c/windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts so I tried to edit the file with the full path but that