Oh no, its come back again! Deleting the names of the files from the .viminfo file worked temporarily. What does this mean? What should I do next?
On Tuesday, 3 January 2023 at 13:15:40 UTC+10:30 JD Allen wrote: > I did what you recommended: removed all lines from viminfo of the files in > question and it seems to have worked. Have not had the error since. > > Thank you! > > On Thursday, 29 December 2022 at 04:44:28 UTC+10:30 [email protected] > wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 16:50:54 -0800 (PST) >> JD Allen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > When I run it with clean: vim --clean -p file1 file2, I don't get the >> > error. Does that mean its a plugin problem? >> >> Possibly. '--clean' argument tells Vim not to load your personal config >> (read ':h --clean'). So if you can't reproduce the issue without >> loading your personal config, that means the problem is caused by >> something in your personal config. Whether it's a plugin (something >> someone else wrote) or something you wrote in your vimrc, cannot be >> guessed without further information. Debug your personal config [1] and >> find the source of the issue. >> >> > Yes, the files in question show up in .viminfo several times. >> > What should I do next? >> >> Read ':h viminfo'. I am not 100% sure, but it seems you opened the >> files file1 and file2 sometime ago and the state of the buffers were >> recorded in viminfo file the last time you quit them. And Vim is now >> trying to open those files exactly how you quit them the last time, >> after reading the state from viminfo file. But somehow the files have >> changed in the meantime, and the lines 3467-3470 do not exist anymore, >> which is causing Vim to lose its cool, because it had saved some state >> information in the viminfo file -- states associated with those lines, >> states which Vim can't reconcile anymore with the associated lines. >> >> My uneducated suggestion would be to remove all lines from '~/.viminfo' >> which contain mention of file1 and file2. REMEMBER to BACKUP viminfo. >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >> [1]: >> https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/2003/how-do-i-debug-my-vimrc-file >> >> -- >> Enan >> [email protected] >> https://git.sr.ht/~enan/ >> https://www.github.com/3N4N >> > -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/069d2d7e-dc0f-4520-a2e3-0204c42b011fn%40googlegroups.com.
