The default viewdir on Windows is $VIM/vimfiles/view, which is to say C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vimfiles\view. When a user runs :mkview, Vim attempts to write to the viewdir, but the user most likely does not have write permission to this directory. The following errors are issued:
E739: Cannot create directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim/vimfiles/view E190: Cannot open "C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim/vimfiles/view\~=+_vimrc=" for writing In order to use the default viewdir, the system administrator needs to create C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vimfiles and C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vimfiles\view, and give the user write permission for C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vimfiles\view. In a multi-user system, users could edit each other's view files, which is a security concern. As a non-expert user of Vim, it took me a while to discover the viewdir setting so I could work around this. In order to make Vim work better out of the box, I think it would be sensible to make the default viewdir $HOME/vimfiles/view, as it is in Unix. I would suggest that you also consider creating $HOME/vimfiles and $HOME/vimfiles/view by default (again, in the interest of making Vim work better out of the box). If there is a policy in place that prevents creating the viewdir automatically, at least an informed user will be able to create the needed directories manually without requiring admin privileges. There are several other OS's which have $VIM/vimfiles/view as the default viewdir, but I cannot comment on whether that creates the same problems it does on Windows. Thanks for the great software! -Rob -- -- 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/d/optout.
