On Thu, August 8, 2013 15:31, Dahong Tang wrote: > $ sudo touch testvim > $ ls -al > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 8 08:25 testvim > $ vi testvim > :w! > :q > $ ls -al > -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 0 Aug 8 08:26 testvim > > I don't understand why vim would override both file permission and > ownership. Any ideas?
I think, this is caused by the way, how vim writes the file, e.g. vim creates a new file with when writing it, deletes the old file and then renames the new file to the original filename and since you have writing permissions on the containing directory, this succeeds. I tried playing around with the backup, writebackup and backupcopy options, but couldn't convince vim to actually try to overwrite the file. regards, Christian -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
