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Re: VIM I/O error with Vista SP1 RC
On Feb 3 17:46, r.chuang@comcast.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I installed Vista SP1 RC v.668 (Vista Vista Ultimate) with Cygwin DLL 1.5.25.
>
> Now VIM seems to fail to write out files properly. Here are the symptoms
>
> 1. If I delete the last characters in a file and write it out from inside VIM the last character is converted into a '\n' (newline character)
>
> 2. If I delete the last line in a file and write it out that line remains in the file
>
> 3. If I delete content from the middle of the file a equal amount of the end of the file is duplicated at the end of the file so the file size remains the same.
>
> Seems like someone (most likely Vista) is writing out the same buffer size and not writing out a smaller buffer. The same version of VIM worked fine before the Vista RC1 update.
>
> Has anyone seen this problem? or should I download the source to VIM and try to debug it.
I tried the same on Vista x86 SP1 RC1 v.744 as well as on Vista x86_64
SP1 RC1 v.668. I can't reproduce this problem. Vim works as advertised.
Corinna
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