Saturday, April 18, 2020

Re: Error editing perl source file with filetype plugin indent on in my _vimrc

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 10:00:24 PM UTC+2, Knute Johnson wrote:
>
> OK, I went back and tried all the other option combination.  Then I went 
> into my archives and installed vims back to 7.3.46 and they all still 
> have the same problem.  It has to be in my computer.  The error says it 
> is starting from the inability to open a temporary file. 
>
> E484: Can't open file C:\Users\Knute 
> Johnson\AppData\Local\Temp\VIo9084.tmp 
>
> What can cause this? 
>
> I installed 8.2.587 to another Windows computer and it works fine.  The 
> problem is somewhere in my computer.  If I had a way to reload Windows I 
> would but this version has been through several disk changes and there 
> is no recovery possible.  I'm afraid I'm going to have to buy some media 
> and load it from scratch. 
>
> I think this is going to be impossible to find. 
>
> Thanks for looking. 
>
> -- 
>
> Knute Johnson 
>

I would try editing a *.pl file under a different user account - an account that has no spaces. On the same system. Preferably with the same VIM installation. Or at least an identical VIM installation and config. So that we see whether the problems has something to do with the space in "C:\Users\Knute Johnson\AppData\Local\Temp".

Tom

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