You may have an errant swap file hanging around, possibly from an earlier abnormal termination.
C Campbell > On Jan 15, 2016, at 11:05 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Charles E Campbell > <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>> When I tried to detach fileB.txt from the gvim window started by >>> gvim -p fileA.txt fileB.txt >>> >>> there is a warning window saying >>> Swap file ".fileB.txt.swp" already exists! >>> the buttons below asks the user to choose one of "Open Read-Only", >>> "Edit anyway", "Recover", "Quit", "Abort" >>> >>> Can you fix this? >>> >> Just tried this: >> >> gvim -u NONE -N -p fileA.txt fileB.txt >> :so [path]/Detach.vim >> :Detach >> >> and it worked correctly without any messages. The message you got >> appears when you hold the file open in another instance of gvim and, >> really, you don't want not to have it. Its telling you that changes >> made to the file in one instance of gvim won't necessarily be reflected >> in the other instance. Remember, the :Detach command starts up a new >> instance of gvim; its not a separate thread sharing the same memory. >> Vim does not support that. >> > > That is weird! It pops up the swap file exists error window even with > "gvim -u NONE -N -p fileA.txt fileB.txt". I am using vim 7.4.576 on > Debian Jessie. > > raju > > -- > -- > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
