Re: vi Permission Denied problems

["Noel L Yap" <yap_noel at jpmorgan dot com>]

Everything seems to check out the same as your setup except that I have /home
mounted (ie Cygwin mounted) to a drive that's mapped to a network drive.  Thanks
for your help, though -- I hadn't realised I stomped my EDITOR definition.

Noel




michael-ring@t-online.de on 2000.07.15 03:27:10

To:   yap_noel@jpmorgan.com
cc:
Subject:  Re: vi Permission Denied problems




On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:17:08 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Here's what happens:
>> vi .bash/.bash_set
># vi is unable to open the file due to a "Permission Denied" problem
>> vi ./.bash/.bash_set
># same problem
>> vi ~/.bash/.bash_set
># this works perfectly
>
>Anyone have any idea as to what's going on?
>

My environment is close to your's, I am also mounting $HOME from
somewhere else (In my case linux box with samba). I have tested all
three versions and they all worked. Then I thought it could perhaps be
something that pops up if /home/$USER is mounted but the directory
/home/$USER is not existant. But that also worked fine on my
installation (1.1.2).

The only thing that might perhaps be a hint is the following:

I saw that EDITOR=/vi is set in your environment. If you use the
installation of vim-5.7 from latest (which I am using) then vi is
/bin/vi. perhaps you have two vi's (or another version of vi) on your
machine. In that case you shoud think about updating.

try a <ESC>:version inside of vi. the result should be something like
that:

VIM - Vi IMproved 5.7 (2000 Jun 24, compiled Jul 11 2000 14:08:36)
Compiled by ring@BOWMAN, with (+) or without (-):
+autocmd -browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent +cmdline_compl
+cmdline_info +comments +cryptv +cscope +dialog_con +digraphs
+emacs_tags +eval
+ex_extra +extra_search +farsi +file_in_path -osfiletype +find_in_path
+fork()
-GUI -hangul_input +insert_expand +langmap +linebreak +lispindent
+menu
+mksession +modify_fname +mouse +mouse_dec -mouse_gpm +mouse_netterm
+mouse_xterm +multi_byte -perl -python +quickfix +rightleft
+scrollbind
+smartindent -sniff +statusline +syntax +tag_binary +tag_old_static
-tag_any_white -tcl -terminfo +textobjects +title +user_commands
+visualextra
+viminfo +wildignore +wildmenu +writebackup -X11 -xfontset -xim
-xterm_clipboard -xterm_save
   system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
     user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
      user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H     -g -O2 -Wall
Linking: gcc  -o vim         -ltermcap  /usr/lib/textmode.o

>Thanks,
>Noel
>
>Enc
>(See attached file: cygcheck.out)

I hope that helped

Michael Ring





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