Re: Spurious E13 message

Thanks, Manfred...

> On Jun 8, 2019, at 10:49 PM, Manfred Lotz <ml_news@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Jon,
>
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2019 21:40:59 -0700 (PDT)
> JESii <jseidel@edpci.com> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, June 8, 2019 at 7:18:50 AM UTC-7, Manfred Lotz wrote:
>>> On Sat, 8 Jun 2019 06:59:01 -0700 (PDT)
>>> JESii
>>>
>>>> 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
>>
>> Thanks, Manfred... Didn't know about that -- I'll give that a try.
>> The whole thing is strange because on my other machine which shares
>> the .vimrc, everything is working fine. But I will check my recent
>> changes again...
>>
>> Cheers...jon
>>
>
> Perhaps you find out what caused it by backing out your recent
> changes
>
> Five days ago I had a problem with neovim where a `dd` and a `p` gave
> strange results. I also have my .vimrc (which will be used by vim and
> neovim) shared over some machines. The problem happened on one machine
> only, and it happened with neovim only. vim was ok.
>
> Without any .vimrc neovim behaved well. So I started with an
> empty .vimrc and added my stuff slowly to find out that
> set clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus
> caused the problem.
>
> Having had a problem with the clipboard manager when using mupdf it
> occured to me that the clipboard manager parcellite which ran on the
> machine where the problem occured was differerent to the one on the
> other machine. I stopped parcellite and the problem was gone. I should
> add that I had been using parcellite for years. Don't know why
> parcellite kind of freaked out.
>
> So, also in your case it could be that something outside of vim could
> be different on that one machine causing the problem in conjunction
> with a specific setting in the .vimrc. Then the question would be: is
> it a vim problem or is it an outside problem where vim just suffers?
>
>
>
> --
> Manfred

Interesting situation: I will take a look. My personal machine is a 2013 MacBook; the client machine was the latest MacBook, so plainly some differences. Also, they have tons of security/admin stuff which mine doesn't have.

Hopefully, I won't have to rebuild my .vimrc — I've got over 2000 lines in there, what with all the shortcuts I've created for programming.

Best…jon

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