Responding to my own post: On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:33, Jim Cunning wrote: [...]
My suggestions: [...] 4. Look at the VIM archives for clues, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vim Found my earlier correspondence with Bram Moolenaar in the VIM archives:
From: Bram Moolenaar
I recently installed SuSE 9.1, upgrading from 8.0, which included VIM version 6.2.263. I have discovered a problem when attempting to edit files on NFS exported from a Network Appliance file server. Whenever I try to edit a new file or an existing one, VIM complains that a swap file already exists. In fact, there _is_ a swap file there, but it is apparently created at the moment VIM was started. I don't see this problem on NFS mounts to SuSE 8.0 systems, or from my old 8.0 system to the Network Appliance, or on local files.
Has anyone experienced this?
This points in the direction of a bad NFS implementation. Vim is very careful about what swap file it creates (checking for an 8.3 filesystem, ingored case, etc.). I very much doubt this is a problem in Vim. But you can only be certain by running Vim in a debugger and stepping through the code... -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 213. Your kids start referring to you as "that guy in front of the monitor." /// Bram Moolenaar -- Bram@... -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// Sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ Project leader for A-A-P -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ Buy at Amazon and help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF.nl/click1.html ///