Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Re: Problem with netrw and buftype

Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Hi wednesday!
>
> On Mi, 24 Jun 2015, wednesday wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 02:25:03AM +0100, wednesday wrote:
>>> When I open up the explorer to put a new file into a split, once
>>> that new file is there the old one becomes unwritable due to buftype
>>> being set to nofile. This has been pretty frustrating and I have yet
>>> to find the answer. If this helps I'm using version 7.2.273 of Vim.
>> Pretty stupid of me, I think I just found the issue was having set
>> autochdir in my vimrc.
> Perhaps consider upgrading to a new Vim version (which should also
> contain an updated netrw), since 7.2.273 is 5.5 years old.
>
I'd suggest that you try the latest netrw
(http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#NETRW) but with such an
old vim (vim is up to 7.4 with 752 patches) it won't work (latest netrw
requires 7.4 with patches 1-213 and will benefit from having patch#656).

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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