-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/16/2010 07:56 AM, John wrote: > On Aug 14, 2:41 pm, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechely...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On 12/08/10 06:29, John wrote: >>> Hi all, >> >>> I'm using Vim 7.2.411 on Windows XP (from the Cream web site), to edit >>> files hosted on a linux server. I have the linux directory as a >>> Windows mapped network drive (via samba). >> >>> If via the linux box, I set the permissions on a file to 775, I can >>> edit and save the file in Notepad and Wordpad, through the mapped >>> network drive, and the permissions are retained. But if I do the same >>> editing in Vim, saving the file reverts its permissions to 644. >> >>> I'm getting sick of typing 'chmod 775'... and I'd rather not use .*pad >>> - any tips? >> >>> Thank you, >>> John >> >> Try using >> :set backupcopy=yes >> >> This should overwrite the old file with the new version (using a copy >> for the backup if any) thus preserving any attributes the file may have. >> The alternative is renaming the old file as backup and creating a new >> file for the new version (which is faster, but may sometimes lose some >> attributes, e.g. when editing from Windows a network file on a Unix server). >> >> See :help 'backupcopy' >> >> Best regards, >> Tony. >> -- >> The word "spine" is, of course, an anagram of "penis". This is true in >> almost fifty percent of the languages of the Galaxy, and many people >> have attempted to explain why. Usually these explanations get bogged >> down in silly puns about "standing erect". >> -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" > > Thanks for the suggestion Tony - the plot did thicken a little with > this tip. > > If I set the file as 777, then set backupcopy to yes, then save it, it > goes to (and stays at) 655. If I then set backupcopy to auto, as it > was originally on Windows, then save, the file goes to 644. Either > way, the user execute bit on my script is being removed - but the > treatment of group/other execute bits surprised me. > > It certainly looks to me like some kind of file mask problem and I > very much suspected Samba settings - but the fact that notepad and > wordpad get it right suggests it's got to be something about the > windows vim implementation alone? I tried going back to the very > first 7.0 release, but the behaviour was the same. I've tried from > two different computers (both XP) - same behaviour. > > Aaron - thanks for the reply - but I don't understand quite what you > mean. From where should I be running the umask command - vim? > windows? linux? >
On Linux , where samba server runs. What if u set up a new umask , before editing any files , will it be some different ? * umask 077 * vim a * ll a - -rw------- 1 xxx yyy 4 Aug 16 08:36 a This is just an idea , may not work well. Or came to your shell configurations e.g ~/.cshrc , set umask bits. - -- Best Regards, Aaron Lewis - PGP: 0x4A6D32A0 FingerPrint EA63 26B2 6C52 72EA A4A5 EB6B BDFE 35B0 4A6D 32A0 irc: A4R0NL3WI5 on freenode -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxoidUACgkQvf41sEptMqABXACgvBg/aYvX1oQwXNF9JQ5XMGyR U68AnArmreP/hOWD8A99qVKnX7PoQOKL =nAe3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
