Friday, October 21, 2011

Re: Tracing Vim into a log file.

On 21/10/11 00:44, Eddine wrote:
> >BTW, trying to write a single file from two processes at the same time
> (such as Vim and the log-writing process) is >courting disaster. If you
> do, you're bound to get problems sooner rather than later.
>
> about the vim log, I mean is there a way to write Vim actions into a
> sperate file of its own ? Not into the file I am editing/reading.

Ah, OK. The fact that you talked about "editing" the logfile (not about
"viewing" it) made me think that you tried to modify it in Vim while the
program writing it was still running.

See:
:help -w
:help -V
and about the latter:
:help 'verbose'
:help 'verbosefile'

Best regards,
Tony.
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