Re: Help! how to check viminfo for errors?

2011-03-02 Thread Ben Schmidt
What version of Vim is running? I suppose you're not in a position to run a different version, either? Currently he is running vim 6.4 on a SunOS 5.9 machine. I tried the sunfreeware binary for vim 7.3, solaris 7 -- on his machine, but this version of vim seemed to have problems drawing the

Help! how to check viminfo for errors?

2011-02-28 Thread howard Schwartz
What version of Vim is running? I suppose you're not in a position to run a different version, either? Currently he is running vim 6.4 on a SunOS 5.9 machine. I tried the sunfreeware binary for vim 7.3, solaris 7 -- on his machine, but this version of vim seemed to have problems drawing the

Help! how to check viminfo for errors?

2011-02-27 Thread howard Schwartz
Hugh Sasse h...@dmu.ac.uk Feb 27 01:26AM wrote: My first thought would be whether the media he is writing to is beginning to die. The user isn't using some kind of removable media, which is being removed too early? Bad or portable media is not the culpret. My friend logs into a powerful

Re: Help! how to check viminfo for errors?

2011-02-27 Thread Ben Schmidt
Yes, I manually correct the viminfo file, and within days or hours another format error occurs, within a line of viminfo. My friend also reports that line numbers for named marks are not correctly set, as he edits. Somehow, vim is writing bad lines to viminfo, when my friend quits vim. I think

Re: Help! how to check viminfo for errors?

2011-02-27 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, howard Schwartz wrote: I know my pleas are getting old for you veterans. But I am trying to make .viminfo work for a blind friend, and he keeps getting more and more errors. I've scoured both the usual and unusual documentation, the scripts library, the web, and vim_use

Help! how to check viminfo for errors?

2011-02-26 Thread howard Schwartz
I know my pleas are getting old for you veterans. But I am trying to make .viminfo work for a blind friend, and he keeps getting more and more errors. I've scoured both the usual and unusual documentation, the scripts library, the web, and vim_use archives - and still can not find certain

Re: Help! how to check viminfo for errors?

2011-02-26 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, howard Schwartz wrote: I know my pleas are getting old for you veterans. But I am trying to make Only rejoined the list recently, but searching doesn't show up any replies to your messages about this. .viminfo work for a blind friend, and he keeps getting more and more