Ingo Karkat wrote: > On 03-Jan-08 17:25, aj wrote: >> I am running gvim on a windows box, version 7.1. >> >> There are a series of coldfusion source files located on another machine on >> the network. I have a shortcut to the network directory containing these >> files on my desktop. >> >> When I try to open one of these files using notepad, it opens instantly. >> >> When I try to open one of these files using gvim, it hangs for about 20 >> seconds before opening. >> >> I get the same 20 second delay when saving files, and also when attempting to >> do tab completion (scanning tags). >> >> This happens 90% of the time, the other 10%, I get lucky, and it works >> instantly. >> >> I have tried disabling plugins and syntax highlighting, to no avail. >> >> Any ideas? > > VIM normally creates a 'swapfile' in the same directory as the edited file > (cp. > :help swap-file). This file creation can take some time on a network share. > Try > launching VIM with the -n argument (no swapfile), e.g. gvim -n > \\<hostname>\share\myfile.txt. If this fixes the problem, you can selectively > disable swapfile creation for this network share (but keep swapfiles for local > files) by setting up an exception in your .vimrc file: > autocmd BufReadPre //<hostname>/* setlocal noswapfile
Also see :help 'directory' which you can use to store swapfiles for remote files locally for safety. Ben. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
