On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ben Fritz wrote: > >> On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 10:39:10 PM UTC-6, [email protected] wrote: >> > Comment #12 on issue 28 by [email protected]: 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > This patch will use environment variables for the temp directories for >> > >> > both 'directory' and 'backupdir' options. >> >> Hi, Bram. I didn't see this patch mentioned in the recently updated todo.txt. >> >> Did you miss this or decide not to include it? > > Wasn't there another patch for the same problem? > Or was that just for the installer? >
The installer patch made it so the shortcuts created by the installer start in a directory where the user has write access. But you can still launch Vim from a different directory if you don't use the shortcut. For example, from a cmd.exe prompt in the Program Files or Windows directories. So this patch makes Vim use $TEMP and $TMP environment variables for swap and backup files before the hard-coded C:\TEMP and C:\TMP which don't exist on recent versions of Windows. Thus there should always be a writable directory usable for swap and backup files. Previously only the hard-coded values were used. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
