[ale] VIM buffer

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Mon Apr 11 14:51:08 EDT 2005


Yep.  It breaks when ~/.viminfo is owned by root.  This is what happened
to me.  when I changed the permissions of that file it started working
again.   


On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 14:28, Jim Patterson wrote:
> This happens because of the "viminfo" file.  I don't know when that feature
> came about, but RH8 may not have it or it may have been turned off at
> compile time.  Try a ":help viminfo" in vim for more details.
> 
> Jim Patterson
> 
> On Apr 9, 2005 6:13 PM, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On SuSE 9.1 I was able to do a 'yy' in vim, exit, open another
> > file with vim and do a paste.  In RH8 I'm not able to do this.  Is
> > there a switch to turn this on?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> > 
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