Re: Spurious E13 message

On Sat, 8 Jun 2019 06:59:01 -0700 (PDT)
JESii <jseidel@edpci.com> wrote:

> I've been using vim for many years and have a strange problem that
> just cropped up.
>
> I'm in vim happily editing, saving as I go and then suddenly I get
> "E13 File exists (add ! to override)" and I have to :w! to save the
> file. Then I'll be able to save the file a few more times, and then I
> get the E13 again.
>
> I have only two buffers open; noreadonly is set; there's nothing I
> can see in :set or :setlocal that would indicate I have to
> "overwrite" an existing file.
>

I guess you checked already that it happened as well when you run
vim -U NONE somfile

If not you should.

If yes and the error is gone then the only idea I have is to start with
a clean .vimrc and to add things from your saved .vimrc in pieces to see
when the error starts happening.

--
Manfred



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