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New issue 28 by metaed: out of the box, gVim 7.3.46 for Win32 cannot write
swap files on Windows 7
http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/detail?id=28
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. install Vim on Windows 7
2. start gVim
3. insert text in the buffer
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The unexpected output is the message:
E303: Unable to open swap file for "[No name]", recovery impossible
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Vim 7.3.46, self identifying as:
Vim 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled oct 27 2010 17:59:02)
MS-Windows 32-bit GUI version with OLE support
Included patches: 1-46
Compiled by Bram@KIBAALE
Please provide any additional information below.
gVim uses the default setting for the "directory" option, that is, it
gets ".,c:\\tmp,c:\\temp", which originates from os_dos.h.
Unfortunately, none of these were writable on a vanilla Windows 7 install.
cwd is C:\Windows\system32, and neither c:\tmp nor c:\temp exist.
This differs from the behavior of the identical installer package on
Windows XP. cwd on Windows XP seems to originate from the HOME environment
variable, which is writable.
A good solution would cause installs on Windows 7 to have cwd be from HOME
on startup, just as on Windows XP.
Changing the "Compatibility Mode" for Vim under Windows 7 to "Windows XP
(Service Pack 3)" does not correct cwd, so it is not a useful workaround.
The same is true of changing "Start In" on the gVim shortcut from empty
to %HOME%.
Adding a "set directory" to .vimrc and appending a writable directory is a
good temporary workaround. Both of these worked:
set directory+=$HOME
set directory+=$TEMP
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