John, believe it or not, I respect where you're coming from. Even though Windows XP was a vast improvement over previous (and future) Microsoft OS's, I agree it's still Windows, and it does suck to use Windows instead of Linux.
But I know of 2 good reasons to use Windows sometimes. a) Tax software isn't available for Linux, and b) The only reason I need Tax software, is because I work, and I can't change that my work mandates Windows on the desktop. I thank God daily that Bram and the Vim team ported it to Windows, so that while much of my experience using the inferior platform is improved by the fact I can use a real editor. When I sit down at a new Windows PC, the first things I do are: Make the file explorer show file extensions and hidden files, install gvim and install Firefox. So anyway, another wonderful feature of Windows (besides crashes), is that if you don't Automatic-update, you'll be vulnerable to the latest exposed security holes, and if you do Automatic-update (often forced by work), you sometimes get forced to reboot when you're not ready, or even at your keyboard. This is one common thing that leads to the problem. So given all that, I approve of venting against Windows, but it's a supported platform for gvim, so since it sounds like I'm not the only one that experiences this, I suggest it would be a useful feature that doesn't cost much in terms of code footprint or performance. David On Apr 17, 7:35 pm, "John Beckett" <johnb.beck...@gmail.com> wrote: > David C. wrote: > > When you attempt to open a text file that was closed > > abnormally before, leaving a hidden .swp file, your open is > > interrupted by something like: > > Swap file "filename.txt.swp" already exists! > > Sorry, but I'm going to deliver some advice from a previous > occasion when this was discussed. You really should NOT be > seeing these errors! Your effort should be spent on finding out > what is going wrong. If your hardware or software is crashing, > they need to be fixed. If you are closing Vim in some strange > way, you need to stop. > > The only time I see the above error (maybe once a year) is when > something has really gone wrong. > > John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
