Further thoughts: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Marty Fried <ma...@leftcoast-usa.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Graham Lawrence <gl00...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I thank you all for your help, but I really can't use your >> recommendations without screwing up something else on my system. I >> have a script which runs automatically on system startup which >> immediately references this ntfs drive, so I must have this drive >> automount on startup like my internal HD, or the script will fail. It >> runs for several hours, during which I can't unmount and remount the >> drive. >> > There is no reason you should have to do this anyway. Nobody suggested you should. > >> The initial mount command assigns the drive to ROOT:ROOT with rwx >> permissions for all users. These cannot be changed with chown, chmod, >> chgrp as explained at >> http://ubuntu.swerdna.org/ubuntfs.html >> As this is an ubuntu site this behavior is not specific to my distro, >> slackware. I assume it is standard behavior for the kernel, ntfs-3g >> and the core utilities. >> > Yes, and I am very aware of this, which is exactly why I suggested experimenting with your fstab settings instead. > >> I appreciate that one can get vim to write to this drive by having it >> use a different linux command to do so, and am already doing that. > > But I often forget to use it because my vim shutdown script >> automatically writes out any altered buffers; but then it fails if it >> tries to write to this ntfs drive. The only feasible solution for me >> is to elaborate my shutdown script to choose the appropriate write >> procedure for each buffer. >> > I wouldn't say it's the *only feasible* solution, only that it's a possible solution. Did you know there is a Vim command that will automatically write any named, unsaved buffers anytime Vim loses focus? You can add this to your .vimrc: au FocusLost * :wa The Vim FAQ addresses this, and another that might be useful: 23.5. How do I automatically save all the changed buffers whenever Vim loses focus? You can define an autocommand for the FocusLost event which will save all the modified buffers whenever Vim loses focus: :autocmd FocusLost * wall For more information, read :help FocusLost :help :wall 23.6. How do I execute/run a function when Vim exits to do some cleanup? You can use VimLeave autocmd event to execute a function just before Vim exists. For example, :autocmd VimLeave * call MyCleanupFunction() For more information, read :help VimLeave -- 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
