Just a guess ... see if you have any .swp .swo etc files lying around,
and in what condition they are in, i.e. read/write permissions (and
permissions on the directory).
On 4/24/06, Marc Wiatrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have tried the -u NONE option... Still get the same error.
>
> Must be something with my machine then...
>
> I'm no C/programming expert, but it seems my problem is coming from this
> function in src/memfile.c. Specifically the read size check that gives
> the E295 error.
>
> Anyone have any ideas as to why my machine would fail here? Something
> else I could check? A better translation to this code?
>
> thanks for all your help,
> marc
>
>
> /*
> * read a block from disk
> *
> * Return FAIL for failure, OK otherwise
> */
> static int
> mf_read(mfp, hp)
> memfile_T *mfp;
> bhdr_T *hp;
> {
> off_t offset;
> unsigned page_size;
> unsigned size;
>
> if (mfp->mf_fd < 0) /* there is no file, can't read */
> return FAIL;
>
> page_size = mfp->mf_page_size;
> offset = (off_t)page_size * hp->bh_bnum;
> size = page_size * hp->bh_page_count;
> if (lseek(mfp->mf_fd, offset, SEEK_SET) != offset)
> {
> EMSG(_("E294: Seek error in swap file read"));
> return FAIL;
> }
> if ((unsigned)vim_read(mfp->mf_fd, hp->bh_data, size) != size)
> {
> EMSG(_("E295: Read error in swap file"));
> return FAIL;
> }
> return OK;
> }
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gerald Lai
> >
> > Vim loads up test.txt fine for me. Have you tried:
> >
> > $ vim -u NONE test.txt
> >
> > just to make sure no configuration files are getting in the way.
> >
> > Like you, I'm also on
> >
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 3)
> > using
> > Vim 6.3
> >
> > --
> > Gerald
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Marc Wiatrowski wrote:
> >
> > > Ok,
> > >
> > > There seems to be size limit, maybe number of lines.. characters
> > > bytes, not sure in reference to the swap file creation? If
> > I generate
> > > a test file with on the RHEL 4 U3 box with vim 6.3.82 (RH
> > 6.3.046-0.40E.7)
> > >
> > > perl -e 'for (my $i=0; $i <= 3509; $i++) { print "This is
> > just one line of text.\n" }' >
> > > test.txt
> > >
> > > and then vim test.txt
> > >
> > > I get:
> > >
> > > E295: Read error in swap file
> > > E316: ml_get: cannot find line 1
> > > Hit ENTER or type command to continue
> > >
> > > Can anyone else reproduce this?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > marc
> > >
>
>
>
