Re: vim losing file bug with :e#

Re: vim losing file bug with :e#

[Greg Matheson]

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Greg Matheson wrote:

> ... I have 2 files open and switch back and forth between each
> with :e#. I start in one and switch to the other and write it,
> with :w and then switch back to the first. Then I change focus
> to another window. 

[and the file was gone.]

It's just started happening again occasionally. It stopped (after I
reinstalled?), so I didn't follow up with this note from Bram
Moolenaar:

> To: Greg Matheson <lang@ms.chinmin.edu.tw>
> Subject: file no longer available
> From: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net>
> Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 13:54:18 +0200

> The change of focus is needed to trigger the check for changed and
> deleted files.  This check remembers that it did the check to avoid that
> a program that continuously appends to a file causes the message over
> and over again.

> It seems that the "penpairs" file actually is deleted somehow, and Vim
> detects this only after you have written the file recently.
> This doesn't sound like a bug go me.  It might actually have something
> to do with the version being compiled with cygwin.  If the file really
> isn't deleted, please contact Corrina Vinschen, the maintainer of the
> cygwin version.

> If you want to avoid the message try using the FileChangedShell
> autocommand event.

> - Bram

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Hey, I just found Ctrl-Shift-6 can be used to move between
buffers. The alternative for :e # is supposed to be CTRL-^, 
which never worked for me, either on this Japanese IBM notebook,
or standard PC keyboard, with cygwin.

I'll have to try Ctrl-Shift-6 on the PC keyboard now.

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vim losing file bug with :e#

[Greg Matheson]

Crossposted to bug@vim.org

This has been happening since vim-6.0 on cygwin. It is
reproducible (although not every time) and occurs when I have 2
files open and switch back and forth between each with :e#. I
start in one and switch to the other and write it, with :w and
then switch back to the first. Then I change focus to another
window. This case, the perl debugger and attempting to read the
file I just wrote, I get the message:

readline() on closed filehandle L at ./ppind.pl line 16.

I then change focus back to vim and switch back to the problem
file and get the vim warning

Warning, file "penpairs" no longer available.

I then write the file to avoid losing it. Then I go back to the
start of this sequence, that is, the first buffer, and do the
same process all over again.  This time I don't get the messages.
But if I do it a third time, the file is no longer available
again.

The changing of focus to another window is involved. If I don't
change focus, I don't lose the file.

I sent the vim bugreport.txt data to bug@vim.org

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