On Saturday 21 February 2009 7:30 am, Alexander Schrijver wrote: > > Hi, > > Vim doesn't seem to do file locking. What is the reason for this? > > I also noticed this on the/a todo list (from 2004): > > 8 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() > or > fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing > the > file: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . > > Will this diff be applied at some point?
this won't protect your file from processes other than vim, but i recommend and use the editexisting.vim plugin if you have that plugin, are editing a file in vim and try and open another vim session on that same file it will error out with a message and try and bring the existing process to the foreground sorry i can't post a link to the script -- the search utility for scripts is useless when all you know is the name of the script and the maintainer's name -- it's out there, trust me after 'browse all', 'edit existing' (two words) in the keywords, sort by script name, ascending, search shows 326 scripts, and editexisting.vim is not among them when i specify the exact name (editexisting) the search comes up empty sc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
