On Saturday, June 8, 2019 at 7:18:50 AM UTC-7, Manfred Lotz wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jun 2019 06:59:01 -0700 (PDT) > JESii > > > I've been using vim for many years and have a strange problem that > > just cropped up. > > > > I'm in vim happily editing, saving as I go and then suddenly I get > > "E13 File exists (add ! to override)" and I have to :w! to save the > > file. Then I'll be able to save the file a few more times, and then I > > get the E13 again. > > > > I have only two buffers open; noreadonly is set; there's nothing I > > can see in :set or :setlocal that would indicate I have to > > "overwrite" an existing file. > > > > I guess you checked already that it happened as well when you run > vim -U NONE somfile > > If not you should. > > If yes and the error is gone then the only idea I have is to start with > a clean .vimrc and to add things from your saved .vimrc in pieces to see > when the error starts happening. > > -- > Manfred
Thanks, Manfred... Didn't know about that -- I'll give that a try. The whole thing is strange because on my other machine which shares the .vimrc, everything is working fine. But I will check my recent changes again... Cheers...jon -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/adf29a14-65ad-40b9-9e8c-f56c18fc2f62%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
