Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 29/12/08 16:56, Charles Campbell wrote:
>
>> Markus Heidelberg wrote:
>>
>>> Charles Campbell, 29.12.2008:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Tom Link wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> When I try to rename a file 1.PDF to 1.pdf, then I find the file got
>>>>>> lost! I
>>>>>> can't find it any other where. But I have backup them up with lucky.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> [..]
>>>>>
>>>>> You might have more luck by using some command line tool for this, I
>>>>> presume.
>>>>>
>>>>> [..]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I'll have to try this out -- I don't have a linux box with a fat32
>>>> mounted drive immediately available
>>>>
>>>>
>>> dd if=/dev/zero of=fat32.img bs=4k count=10k
>>> mkfs.vfat -F 32 fat32.img
>>> mkdir mount
>>> mount -o loop,umask=000 fat32.img mount/ # as root
>>> cd mount
>>> touch file1.PDF
>>> vim .
>>>
>>> Then renaming with 'R' to file1.pdf or similar deletes the file.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks -- although I already knew how to make a fat32 partition -- there
>> are reasons why I don't want to make a fat32 partition on the machine
>> I'm currently working with.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Chip Campbell
>>
>
> That's your choice of course, but as shown (a FAT32 image as a file on a
> Linux partition) it would still not be visible to a Windows kernel. Of
> course you might prefer to do it at home rather than on the job.
>
Well, its lunchtime -- and I've done it -- and it appears to be a vim
problem. Netrw is in fact calling vim's rename() function; but with
full paths.
:call rename("..fullpath../1.pdf","..fullpath../1.PDF")
causes the 1.pdf file to be removed.
Regards,
Chip Campbell
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