Sorry, should have been more emphatic, I have the ntfs-3g driver. Vim is the *only* app that has a problem writing to this device, all others do so freely. I have to keep windows to run my printer and tv, but virtually all the files on this ntfs drive are created in linux.
So the problem is specific to vim. The help has no reference for ntfs or fat32, but as vim can be used on windows it must be able to write to these file systems. Or is that a feature only available with the windows version? I would much prefer a solution within vim itself, rather than tinker with my fstab. It took a lot of false starts to get this device to automount on system start-up, without activating linux's excessive deference to the pathetic OS, and thus trying to boot from the ntfs drive. What I do at the moment is use a mapping that writes such files to my linux hd, then copies it to the ntfs drive, but I often forget to use it as I rely on another mapping to close vim down that also saves all open buffers. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
