Re: detach current tab into a separate window

You may have an errant swap file hanging around, possibly from an earlier abnormal termination.

C Campbell

> On Jan 15, 2016, at 11:05 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Charles E Campbell
> <drchip@campbellfamily.biz> wrote:
>>>>
>>> When I tried to detach fileB.txt from the gvim window started by
>>> gvim -p fileA.txt fileB.txt
>>>
>>> there is a warning window saying
>>> Swap file ".fileB.txt.swp" already exists!
>>> the buttons below asks the user to choose one of "Open Read-Only",
>>> "Edit anyway", "Recover", "Quit", "Abort"
>>>
>>> Can you fix this?
>>>
>> Just tried this:
>>
>> gvim -u NONE -N -p fileA.txt fileB.txt
>> :so [path]/Detach.vim
>> :Detach
>>
>> and it worked correctly without any messages. The message you got
>> appears when you hold the file open in another instance of gvim and,
>> really, you don't want not to have it. Its telling you that changes
>> made to the file in one instance of gvim won't necessarily be reflected
>> in the other instance. Remember, the :Detach command starts up a new
>> instance of gvim; its not a separate thread sharing the same memory.
>> Vim does not support that.
>>
>
> That is weird! It pops up the swap file exists error window even with
> "gvim -u NONE -N -p fileA.txt fileB.txt". I am using vim 7.4.576 on
> Debian Jessie.
>
> raju
>
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