I have tried the -u NONE option... Still get the same error.
Must be something with my machine then...
I'm no C/programming expert, but it seems my problem is coming from this
function in src/memfile.c. Specifically the read size check that gives
the E295 error.
Anyone have any ideas as to why my machine would fail here? Something
else I could check? A better translation to this code?
thanks for all your help,
marc
/*
* read a block from disk
*
* Return FAIL for failure, OK otherwise
*/
static int
mf_read(mfp, hp)
memfile_T *mfp;
bhdr_T *hp;
{
off_t offset;
unsigned page_size;
unsigned size;
if (mfp->mf_fd < 0) /* there is no file, can't read */
return FAIL;
page_size = mfp->mf_page_size;
offset = (off_t)page_size * hp->bh_bnum;
size = page_size * hp->bh_page_count;
if (lseek(mfp->mf_fd, offset, SEEK_SET) != offset)
{
EMSG(_("E294: Seek error in swap file read"));
return FAIL;
}
if ((unsigned)vim_read(mfp->mf_fd, hp->bh_data, size) != size)
{
EMSG(_("E295: Read error in swap file"));
return FAIL;
}
return OK;
}
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald Lai
>
> Vim loads up test.txt fine for me. Have you tried:
>
> $ vim -u NONE test.txt
>
> just to make sure no configuration files are getting in the way.
>
> Like you, I'm also on
>
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 3)
> using
> Vim 6.3
>
> --
> Gerald
>
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Marc Wiatrowski wrote:
>
> > Ok,
> >
> > There seems to be size limit, maybe number of lines.. characters
> > bytes, not sure in reference to the swap file creation? If
> I generate
> > a test file with on the RHEL 4 U3 box with vim 6.3.82 (RH
> 6.3.046-0.40E.7)
> >
> > perl -e 'for (my $i=0; $i <= 3509; $i++) { print "This is
> just one line of text.\n" }' >
> > test.txt
> >
> > and then vim test.txt
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > E295: Read error in swap file
> > E316: ml_get: cannot find line 1
> > Hit ENTER or type command to continue
> >
> > Can anyone else reproduce this?
> >
> > thanks,
> > marc
> >
