Re: Patched VIM 7.0 reboots Windows 2000 on forced write to read-only file (?)

2006-12-07 Thread Yongwei Wu
Hi Paul, On 12/7/06, Paul Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone else seeing this problem? My Windows 2000 system reboots when I issue :w! to overwrite a read-only file. (I normally do this when I forget to mark a file writeable. I force the write and then mark it writeable with a

Re: Patched VIM 7.0 reboots Windows 2000 on forced write to read-only file (?)

2006-12-07 Thread Paul Stone
On 12/6/06, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Stone wrote: [...] :!attrib works fine for me. :w! causes the reboot (with read-only file). Normally, :w! should overwrite a read-only file. Paul Stone Strange... Do you have the W flag in 'cpoptions' ? Best regards, Tony.

Re: Patched VIM 7.0 reboots Windows 2000 on forced write to read-only file (?)

2006-12-07 Thread Paul Stone
On 12/7/06, Yongwei Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paul, On 12/7/06, Paul Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone else seeing this problem? My Windows 2000 system reboots when I issue :w! to overwrite a read-only file. (I normally do this when I forget to mark a file writeable. I force

Re: Patched VIM 7.0 reboots Windows 2000 on forced write to read-only file (?)

2006-12-07 Thread Yongwei Wu
Hi Paul, On 12/8/06, Paul Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/7/06, Yongwei Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paul, On 12/7/06, Paul Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone else seeing this problem? My Windows 2000 system reboots when I issue :w! to overwrite a read-only file. (I

Patched VIM 7.0 reboots Windows 2000 on forced write to read-only file (?)

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Stone
Is anyone else seeing this problem? My Windows 2000 system reboots when I issue :w! to overwrite a read-only file. (I normally do this when I forget to mark a file writeable. I force the write and then mark it writeable with a function key mapped to :!attribspace-rspaceC-R%CR ) I am using

Re: Patched VIM 7.0 reboots Windows 2000 on forced write to read-only file (?)

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Stone
Further clarification -- I went to the Cream web page because the VIM Downloads page links there as a way of getting a fully patched version of VIM for the PC: http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc For the latest version with all patches included see Cream below. These versions are unofficial, but

Re: Patched VIM 7.0 reboots Windows 2000 on forced write to read-only file (?)

2006-12-06 Thread Alan Isaac
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Paul Stone wrote: I went to the Cream web page because the VIM Downloads page links there as a way of getting a fully patched version of VIM for the PC Can this be installed over the previous Vim 7, or do I need to uninstall first? (Windows.) Thank you, Alan Isaac

Re: Patched VIM 7.0 reboots Windows 2000 on forced write to read-only file (?)

2006-12-06 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Paul Stone wrote: Further clarification -- I went to the Cream web page because the VIM Downloads page links there as a way of getting a fully patched version of VIM for the PC: http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc For the latest version with all patches included see Cream below. These versions

Re: Patched VIM 7.0 reboots Windows 2000 on forced write to read-only file (?)

2006-12-06 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Alan Isaac wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Paul Stone wrote: I went to the Cream web page because the VIM Downloads page links there as a way of getting a fully patched version of VIM for the PC Can this be installed over the previous Vim 7, or do I need to uninstall first? (Windows.) Thank

Re: Patched VIM 7.0 reboots Windows 2000 on forced write to read-only file (?)

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Stone
On 12/6/06, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Stone wrote: Further clarification -- I went to the Cream web page because the VIM Downloads page links there as a way of getting a fully patched version of VIM for the PC: http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc For the latest version

Re: Patched VIM 7.0 reboots Windows 2000 on forced write to read-only file (?)

2006-12-06 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Paul Stone wrote: [...] :!attrib works fine for me. :w! causes the reboot (with read-only file). Normally, :w! should overwrite a read-only file. Paul Stone Strange... Do you have the W flag in 'cpoptions' ? Best regards, Tony.

Re: Patched VIM 7.0 reboots Windows 2000 on forced write to read-only file (?)

2006-12-06 Thread Steve Hall
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 23:14 +0100, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Alan Isaac wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Paul Stone wrote: I went to the Cream web page because the VIM Downloads page links there as a way of getting a fully patched version of VIM for the PC Can this be installed over the