Bug#249591: marked as done (vim-common: halts with E21 error when using :help)
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Subject: vim-common: halts with E21 error when using :help
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Package: vim-common
Version: 1:6.2-532+3
Severity: normal
The help-files are opened with 'nomodifiable' and since they are .txt
files my BufRead Auto command triggers and tries to change the
fileencoding to iso-8859-1. This is disallowed by the 'nomodifiable'
flag and it halts displaying:
Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.txt":
E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off: fileencoding=iso-8859-1
Hit ENTER or type command to continue
Relevant extract from my .vimrc:
au BufNewFile,BufRead mutt*,*.txt,*/.followup set tw=77 ai nocindent fileencoding=iso-8859-1
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.3.2004.02.29-1
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages vim-common depends on:
ii vim 1:6.2-532+3 Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
-- no debconf information
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Subject: Re: Bug#249591: vim-common: halts with E21 error when using :help
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On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 04:44:36PM +0200, =D8ystein Urdahl wrote:
> On Tue, 18 May 2004, Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
>=20
> > * =D8ystein Urdahl wrote:
> > > The help-files are opened with 'nomodifiable' and since they are .t=
xt
> > > files my BufRead Auto command triggers and tries to change the
> > > fileencoding to iso-8859-1. This is disallowed by the 'nomodifiable=
'
> > > flag and it halts displaying:
> > >=20
> > > Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.txt":
> > > E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off: fileencoding=3Diso-8=
859-1
> > > Hit ENTER or type command to continue
> > >=20
> > > Relevant extract from my .vimrc:
> > >=20
> > > au BufNewFile,BufRead mutt*,*.txt,*/.followup set tw=3D77 ai nocind=
ent
> > > fileencoding=3Diso-8859-1
> >=20
> > I don't see the bug here. You try to modify a nomodifiable file.
> > That's not a bug, that's just PEBKAC.
>=20
> I'm not sure I agree with you there since this is a change in behaviour
> from earlier. Unfortunatly I can't tell exactly when this change happen=
d,
> but I _think_ it's quite recent.
>=20
> Since you don't consider this change in behaviour a bug I wrote a
> workaround to avoid getting the error every time I need the vim help. I
> includes it here in case someone else also is annoyed by it.
>=20
> " 'nomodifiable' disallows changes to 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding'
> " so remove those entries in the else clause
> function! Noma_workaround()
> if exists("modifiable")
> set tw=3D77 ai nocindent fileencoding=3Diso-8859-1
> else
> set tw=3D77 ai nocindent
> endif
> endfunction
>=20
> au BufNewFile,BufRead mutt*,*.txt,*/.followup call Noma_workaround()
>=20
>=20
> I see now that I was a bit to fast when sending this bug report in and
> that it should have been filed against vim and not vim-common. So if yo=
u
> could move it over there before you close it that would be nice.
well, IMHO, like norbert said, the bug is well in vim-common. anyway,
I don't see the bug here, and I believe you were the one that made a bad
vimrc. with your setting, if you open any read-only .txt file, then you
will have such errors.
Like norbert said, your config file has always been buggy, but you
didn't triggered the bug with :help before since help file was
compressed and is not anymore. but I assure you that if you edit any
/usr/**/foo.txt file, it would trigger the bug too.
That's why I consider it not beeing a bug. and I suggest you to
always use your function that checks if file is modifiable or not.
btw you can use a try statement too.
--=20
=B7O=B7 Pierre Habouzit
=B7=B7O
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