Re: Editing tar file under osx

On Friday, 20 February 2015 18:48:09 UTC+1, Charles Campbell wrote:
> Subbu wrote:
> > Hello Everyone!
> >
> > I have this strange problem editing tar file with vim. vim can edit and update tar under Linux. But it might have some problem with osx. I could reproduce this problem on simple tar file(like - tar has one text file). Does anyone has problem using vim with tar file with osx (os x yosemite) ? Any help really appreciated.
> > Bellow is the error I am getting.
> >
> > ***error*** (tar#Write) sorry, unable to update /Users/user/mytar.tar with hello
> >
> > Output from :message is :
> >
> > "tarfile::hello" [Not edited] --No lines in buffer--
> >
> > Here is a debug log for this problem :
> >
> > "hello"
> > "hello" [New] 1L, 6C written
> > Calling shell to execute: "(tar --delete -f '/Users/user/mytar.tar' 'hello') >/var/folders/kr/4d2rsqs95bs1lv81d8jkkfwh0000gn/T/vbhpNWR/13 2>&1"
> > ***error*** (tar#Write) sorry, unable to update /Users/user/mytar.tar with hello
> > chdir(..)
> > /private/var/folders/kr/4d2rsqs95bs1lv81d8jkkfwh0000gn/T/vbhpNWR/12
> > Calling shell to execute: "(/bin/rm -rf -- '_ZIPVIM_') >/var/folders/kr/4d2rsqs95bs1lv81d8jkkfwh0000gn/T/vbhpNWR/14 2>&1"
> >
> Hello:
>
> Please try v30b of plugin/tar.vim, which you can get from my website:
> http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#TAR . This version won't
> actually solve your problem, but it might make it possible to do so.
>
> I suspect that the tar command used: tar --delete -f ...
> doesn't work on your mac. So I've made an option (a global variable,
> really): g:tar_delfile, that by default is "--delete -f". If you can
> find a mac equivalent, you can put let g:tar_delfile="..." in your
> .vimrc. Please let me know if you find something that works. What it
> does is delete a file from the tar archive.
>
> You already have the g:tar_writeoptions variable, which by default has
> the value "uf", and causes tar to be updated with a given file. You may
> need to find a mac-ish substitute for that, too.
>
> Regards,
> Chip Campbell

Hello Chip & John,

Thanks for your reply.
I was just going through vim code and learning how this tar function works.
I am aware of the plugin tar plugin. I was just curious to try the functionality from vim :). Thanks for pointing out where the problem was from the logs. I really appreciate it. Mac tar does not support --delete option, as you said. Mac does support g:tar_writeoptions with value "uf".
I will try using "rm -f" command for the "tar --delete -f" on my vim and give a try if I could make it work. I will keep you guys posted :)
Thanks!

Best Regards,
Subbu
P.S: I just installed tar plugin to solve this.

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