Re: Bug: .viminfo file gets deleted and re-created with 666 permissions

2007-05-12 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Micah Cowan wrote: Following description lifted from bug filed at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/78960 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ rm .viminfo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ln -s /dev/null .viminfo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l .viminfo lrwxrwxrwx 1 sa sa 9 2007-01-12 17:16 .viminfo -

Re: WARNING! Don't update your local svn repository now!

2007-05-12 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Edward L. Fox wrote: On 5/12/07, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicolas Weber wrote: The directories structure of the Subversion repository has been changed. Please use this command to checkout the latest sources: svn co

Re: Bug: .viminfo file gets deleted and re-created with 666 permissions

2007-05-12 Thread Micah Cowan
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: Following description lifted from bug filed at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/78960 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ rm .viminfo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ln -s /dev/null .viminfo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l .viminfo lrwxrwxrwx 1 sa sa 9

Re: WARNING! Don't update your local svn repository now!

2007-05-12 Thread scott
On Friday 11 May 2007 16:29, Bram Moolenaar wrote: Nicolas Weber wrote: The directories structure of the Subversion repository has been changed. Please use this command to checkout the latest sources: svn co https://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vim/branches/vim7.1 vim7

Re: Bug: .viminfo file gets deleted and re-created with 666 permissions

2007-05-12 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Micah Cowan wrote: Bram Moolenaar wrote: [...] The solution is simple: Don't create a link in place of the .viminfo file. And certainly not to /dev/null. Background info: When Vim finds an existing .viminfo file, it writes the new info into a temp file (since it's still reading from the

Stable Vim version 7.1 has been released

2007-05-12 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.1 This is a stable release of Vim, version 7.1. Since version 7.0 lots of problems were fixed and runtime files were updated. It has been one year and five days since 7.0! Most of Vim 7.1 was already available as patches for quite a while. A couple

Re: Bug: .viminfo file gets deleted and re-created with 666 permissions

2007-05-12 Thread Micah Cowan
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: Bram Moolenaar wrote: [...] The solution is simple: Don't create a link in place of the .viminfo file. And certainly not to /dev/null. Background info: When Vim finds an existing .viminfo file, it writes the new info into a temp file (since it's

Re: Bug: .viminfo file gets deleted and re-created with 666 permissions

2007-05-12 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Micah Cowan wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: Bram Moolenaar wrote: [...] The solution is simple: Don't create a link in place of the .viminfo file. And certainly not to /dev/null. Background info: When Vim finds an existing .viminfo file, it writes the new info into a temp

Re: [Bulk] Re: Bug: .viminfo file gets deleted and re-created with 666 permissions

2007-05-12 Thread Robert Lee
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: Bram Moolenaar wrote: [...] The solution is simple: Don't create a link in place of the .viminfo file. And certainly not to /dev/null. Background info: When Vim finds an existing .viminfo file, it writes

Re: [Bulk] Re: Bug: .viminfo file gets deleted and re-created with 666 permissions

2007-05-12 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Robert Lee wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: Bram Moolenaar wrote: [...] The solution is simple: Don't create a link in place of the .viminfo file. And certainly not to /dev/null. Background info: When Vim finds an existing .viminfo

Re: Stable Vim version 7.1 has been released

2007-05-12 Thread Edward L. Fox
Hi Vimmers, On 5/13/07, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.1 This is a stable release of Vim, version 7.1. Since version 7.0 lots of problems were fixed and runtime files were updated. It has been one year and five days since 7.0! Most of Vim