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annotate runtime/doc/message.txt @ 16553:0e473e9e70c2 v8.1.1280
patch 8.1.1280: remarks about functionality not in Vi clutters the help
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Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Date: Sun May 5 18:13:34 2019 +0200
patch 8.1.1280: remarks about functionality not in Vi clutters the help
Problem: Remarks about functionality not in Vi clutters the help.
Solution: Move all info about what is new in Vim or already existed in Vi to
vi_diff.txt. Remove {not in Vi} remarks. (closes #4268) Add
"noet" to the help files modeline. Also include many other help
file improvements.
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1 *message.txt* For Vim version 8.1. Last change: 2019 May 05 |
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| 4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar | |
| 5 | |
| 6 | |
| 7 This file contains an alphabetical list of messages and error messages that | |
| 8 Vim produces. You can use this if you don't understand what the message | |
| 9 means. It is not complete though. | |
| 10 | |
| 11 1. Old messages |:messages| | |
| 12 2. Error messages |error-messages| | |
| 13 3. Messages |messages| | |
| 14 | |
| 15 ============================================================================== | |
| 16 1. Old messages *:messages* *:mes* *message-history* | |
| 17 | |
| 18 The ":messages" command can be used to view previously given messages. This | |
| 19 is especially useful when messages have been overwritten or truncated. This | |
| 20 depends on the 'shortmess' option. | |
| 21 | |
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31 The number of remembered messages is fixed at 20 for the tiny version and 200 |
| 625 | 32 for other versions. |
| 7 | 33 |
| 447 | 34 *g<* |
| 35 The "g<" command can be used to see the last page of previous command output. | |
| 532 | 36 This is especially useful if you accidentally typed <Space> at the hit-enter |
| 1118 | 37 prompt. You are then back at the hit-enter prompt and can then scroll further |
| 38 back. | |
| 2826 | 39 Note: If the output has been stopped with "q" at the more prompt, it will only |
| 40 be displayed up to this point. | |
| 447 | 41 The previous command output is cleared when another command produces output. |
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42 The "g<" output is not redirected. |
| 447 | 43 |
| 7 | 44 If you are using translated messages, the first printed line tells who |
| 45 maintains the messages or the translations. You can use this to contact the | |
| 46 maintainer when you spot a mistake. | |
| 47 | |
| 48 If you want to find help on a specific (error) message, use the ID at the | |
| 49 start of the message. For example, to get help on the message: > | |
| 50 | |
| 51 E72: Close error on swap file | |
| 52 | |
| 53 or (translated): > | |
| 54 | |
| 55 E72: Errore durante chiusura swap file | |
| 56 | |
| 57 Use: > | |
| 58 | |
| 59 :help E72 | |
| 60 | |
| 61 If you are lazy, it also works without the shift key: > | |
| 62 | |
| 63 :help e72 | |
| 64 | |
| 65 ============================================================================== | |
| 1618 | 66 2. Error messages *error-messages* *errors* |
| 7 | 67 |
| 68 When an error message is displayed, but it is removed before you could read | |
| 69 it, you can see it again with: > | |
| 70 :echo errmsg | |
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| 7 | 72 :messages |
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73 See `:messages` above. |
| 7 | 74 |
| 75 | |
| 76 LIST OF MESSAGES | |
| 77 *E222* *E228* *E232* *E256* *E293* *E298* *E304* *E317* | |
| 78 *E318* *E356* *E438* *E439* *E440* *E316* *E320* *E322* | |
| 13231 | 79 *E323* *E341* *E473* *E570* *E685* *E950* > |
| 7 | 80 Add to read buffer |
| 81 makemap: Illegal mode | |
| 82 Cannot create BalloonEval with both message and callback | |
| 83 Hangul automata ERROR | |
| 84 block was not locked | |
| 85 Didn't get block nr {N}? | |
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| 7 | 87 pointer block id wrong {N} |
| 88 Updated too many blocks? | |
| 89 get_varp ERROR | |
| 90 u_undo: line numbers wrong | |
| 91 undo list corrupt | |
| 92 undo line missing | |
| 93 ml_get: cannot find line {N} | |
| 94 cannot find line {N} | |
| 95 line number out of range: {N} past the end | |
| 96 line count wrong in block {N} | |
| 97 Internal error | |
| 84 | 98 Internal error: {function} |
| 7 | 99 fatal error in cs_manage_matches |
| 13231 | 100 Invalid count for del_bytes(): {N} |
| 7 | 101 |
| 102 This is an internal error. If you can reproduce it, please send in a bug | |
| 103 report. |bugs| | |
| 104 | |
| 105 > | |
| 106 ATTENTION | |
| 107 Found a swap file by the name ... | |
| 108 | |
| 109 See |ATTENTION|. | |
| 110 | |
| 111 *E92* > | |
| 112 Buffer {N} not found | |
| 113 | |
| 114 The buffer you requested does not exist. This can also happen when you have | |
| 115 wiped out a buffer which contains a mark or is referenced in another way. | |
| 116 |:bwipeout| | |
| 117 | |
| 118 *E95* > | |
| 119 Buffer with this name already exists | |
| 120 | |
| 121 You cannot have two buffers with the same name. | |
| 122 | |
| 123 *E72* > | |
| 124 Close error on swap file | |
| 125 | |
| 126 The |swap-file|, that is used to keep a copy of the edited text, could not be | |
| 127 closed properly. Mostly harmless. | |
| 128 | |
| 129 *E169* > | |
| 130 Command too recursive | |
| 131 | |
| 132 This happens when an Ex command executes an Ex command that executes an Ex | |
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| 7 | 136 |
| 137 *E254* > | |
| 138 Cannot allocate color {name} | |
| 139 | |
| 140 The color name {name} is unknown. See |gui-colors| for a list of colors that | |
| 141 are available on most systems. | |
| 142 | |
| 143 *E458* > | |
| 144 Cannot allocate colormap entry, some colors may be incorrect | |
| 145 | |
| 146 This means that there are not enough colors available for Vim. It will still | |
| 147 run, but some of the colors will not appear in the specified color. Try | |
| 148 stopping other applications that use many colors, or start them after starting | |
| 149 gvim. | |
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| 7 | 152 netscape -install |
| 153 Or tell it to limit to a certain number of colors (64 should work well): > | |
| 154 netscape -ncols 64 | |
| 155 This can also be done with a line in your Xdefaults file: > | |
| 156 Netscape*installColormap: Yes | |
| 157 or > | |
| 158 Netscape*maxImageColors: 64 | |
| 159 < | |
| 160 *E79* > | |
| 161 Cannot expand wildcards | |
| 162 | |
| 163 A filename contains a strange combination of characters, which causes Vim to | |
| 164 attempt expanding wildcards but this fails. This does NOT mean that no | |
| 165 matching file names could be found, but that the pattern was illegal. | |
| 166 | |
| 167 *E459* > | |
| 168 Cannot go back to previous directory | |
| 169 | |
| 170 While expanding a file name, Vim failed to go back to the previously used | |
| 171 directory. All file names being used may be invalid now! You need to have | |
| 172 execute permission on the current directory. | |
| 173 | |
| 174 *E190* *E212* > | |
| 175 Cannot open "{filename}" for writing | |
| 176 Can't open file for writing | |
| 177 | |
| 178 For some reason the file you are writing to cannot be created or overwritten. | |
| 179 The reason could be that you do not have permission to write in the directory | |
| 180 or the file name is not valid. | |
| 181 | |
| 182 *E166* > | |
| 183 Can't open linked file for writing | |
| 184 | |
| 185 You are trying to write to a file which can't be overwritten, and the file is | |
| 186 a link (either a hard link or a symbolic link). Writing might still be | |
| 187 possible if the directory that contains the link or the file is writable, but | |
| 188 Vim now doesn't know if you want to delete the link and write the file in its | |
| 189 place, or if you want to delete the file itself and write the new file in its | |
| 190 place. If you really want to write the file under this name, you have to | |
| 191 manually delete the link or the file, or change the permissions so that Vim | |
| 192 can overwrite. | |
| 193 | |
| 194 *E46* > | |
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| 7 | 196 |
| 197 You are trying to assign a value to an argument of a function |a:var| or a Vim | |
| 198 internal variable |v:var| which is read-only. | |
| 199 | |
| 200 *E90* > | |
| 201 Cannot unload last buffer | |
| 202 | |
| 203 Vim always requires one buffer to be loaded, otherwise there would be nothing | |
| 204 to display in the window. | |
| 205 | |
| 206 *E40* > | |
| 207 Can't open errorfile <filename> | |
| 208 | |
| 209 When using the ":make" or ":grep" commands: The file used to save the error | |
| 210 messages or grep output cannot be opened. This can have several causes: | |
| 211 - 'shellredir' has a wrong value. | |
| 212 - The shell changes directory, causing the error file to be written in another | |
| 213 directory. This could be fixed by changing 'makeef', but then the make | |
| 214 command is still executed in the wrong directory. | |
| 215 - 'makeef' has a wrong value. | |
| 216 - The 'grepprg' or 'makeprg' could not be executed. This cannot always be | |
| 217 detected (especially on MS-Windows). Check your $PATH. | |
| 218 | |
| 219 > | |
| 220 Can't open file C:\TEMP\VIoD243.TMP | |
| 221 | |
| 222 On MS-Windows, this message appears when the output of an external command was | |
| 223 to be read, but the command didn't run successfully. This can be caused by | |
| 224 many things. Check the 'shell', 'shellquote', 'shellxquote', 'shellslash' and | |
| 225 related options. It might also be that the external command was not found, | |
| 226 there is no different error message for that. | |
| 227 | |
| 228 *E12* > | |
| 229 Command not allowed from exrc/vimrc in current dir or tag search | |
| 230 | |
| 231 Some commands are not allowed for security reasons. These commands mostly | |
| 232 come from a .exrc or .vimrc file in the current directory, or from a tags | |
| 233 file. Also see 'secure'. | |
| 234 | |
| 235 *E74* > | |
| 236 Command too complex | |
| 237 | |
| 238 A mapping resulted in a very long command string. Could be caused by a | |
| 239 mapping that indirectly calls itself. | |
| 240 | |
| 241 > | |
| 242 CONVERSION ERROR | |
| 243 | |
| 244 When writing a file and the text "CONVERSION ERROR" appears, this means that | |
| 245 some bits were lost when converting text from the internally used UTF-8 to the | |
| 246 format of the file. The file will not be marked unmodified. If you care | |
| 247 about the loss of information, set the 'fileencoding' option to another value | |
| 248 that can handle the characters in the buffer and write again. If you don't | |
| 249 care, you can abandon the buffer or reset the 'modified' option. | |
| 250 | |
| 251 *E302* > | |
| 252 Could not rename swap file | |
| 253 | |
| 254 When the file name changes, Vim tries to rename the |swap-file| as well. | |
| 255 This failed and the old swap file is now still used. Mostly harmless. | |
| 256 | |
| 257 *E43* *E44* > | |
| 258 Damaged match string | |
| 259 Corrupted regexp program | |
| 260 | |
| 261 Something inside Vim went wrong and resulted in a corrupted regexp. If you | |
| 262 know how to reproduce this problem, please report it. |bugs| | |
| 263 | |
| 264 *E208* *E209* *E210* > | |
| 265 Error writing to "{filename}" | |
| 266 Error closing "{filename}" | |
| 267 Error reading "{filename}" | |
| 268 | |
| 269 This occurs when Vim is trying to rename a file, but a simple change of file | |
| 270 name doesn't work. Then the file will be copied, but somehow this failed. | |
| 271 The result may be that both the original file and the destination file exist | |
| 272 and the destination file may be incomplete. | |
| 273 | |
| 274 > | |
| 275 Vim: Error reading input, exiting... | |
| 276 | |
| 277 This occurs when Vim cannot read typed characters while input is required. | |
| 278 Vim got stuck, the only thing it can do is exit. This can happen when both | |
| 279 stdin and stderr are redirected and executing a script that doesn't exit Vim. | |
| 280 | |
| 281 *E47* > | |
| 282 Error while reading errorfile | |
| 283 | |
| 284 Reading the error file was not possible. This is NOT caused by an error | |
| 285 message that was not recognized. | |
| 286 | |
| 287 *E80* > | |
| 288 Error while writing | |
| 289 | |
| 290 Writing a file was not completed successfully. The file is probably | |
| 291 incomplete. | |
| 292 | |
| 293 *E13* *E189* > | |
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| 7 | 296 |
| 297 You are protected from accidentally overwriting a file. When you want to | |
| 298 write anyway, use the same command, but add a "!" just after the command. | |
| 299 Example: > | |
| 300 :w /tmp/test | |
| 301 changes to: > | |
| 302 :w! /tmp/test | |
| 303 < | |
| 457 | 304 *E768* > |
| 305 Swap file exists: {filename} (:silent! overrides) | |
| 306 | |
| 307 You are protected from overwriting a file that is being edited by Vim. This | |
| 308 happens when you use ":w! filename" and a swapfile is found. | |
| 309 - If the swapfile was left over from an old crashed edit session you may want | |
| 310 to delete the swapfile. Edit {filename} to find out information about the | |
| 311 swapfile. | |
| 312 - If you want to write anyway prepend ":silent!" to the command. For example: > | |
| 856 | 313 :silent! w! /tmp/test |
| 457 | 314 < The special command is needed, since you already added the ! for overwriting |
| 315 an existing file. | |
| 316 | |
| 7 | 317 *E139* > |
| 318 File is loaded in another buffer | |
| 319 | |
| 320 You are trying to write a file under a name which is also used in another | |
| 321 buffer. This would result in two versions of the same file. | |
| 322 | |
| 323 *E142* > | |
| 324 File not written: Writing is disabled by 'write' option | |
| 325 | |
| 326 The 'write' option is off. This makes all commands that try to write a file | |
| 327 generate this message. This could be caused by a |-m| commandline argument. | |
| 328 You can switch the 'write' option on with ":set write". | |
| 329 | |
| 330 *E25* > | |
| 331 GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time | |
| 332 | |
| 333 You are running a version of Vim that doesn't include the GUI code. Therefore | |
| 334 "gvim" and ":gui" don't work. | |
| 335 | |
| 336 *E49* > | |
| 337 Invalid scroll size | |
| 338 | |
| 339 This is caused by setting an invalid value for the 'scroll', 'scrolljump' or | |
| 340 'scrolloff' options. | |
| 341 | |
| 342 *E17* > | |
| 343 "{filename}" is a directory | |
| 344 | |
| 345 You tried to write a file with the name of a directory. This is not possible. | |
| 346 You probably need to append a file name. | |
| 347 | |
| 348 *E19* > | |
| 349 Mark has invalid line number | |
| 350 | |
| 351 You are using a mark that has a line number that doesn't exist. This can | |
| 352 happen when you have a mark in another file, and some other program has | |
| 353 deleted lines from it. | |
| 354 | |
| 355 *E219* *E220* > | |
| 356 Missing {. | |
| 357 Missing }. | |
| 358 | |
| 359 Using a {} construct in a file name, but there is a { without a matching } or | |
| 360 the other way around. It should be used like this: {foo,bar}. This matches | |
| 361 "foo" and "bar". | |
| 362 | |
| 363 *E315* > | |
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| 7 | 365 |
| 366 This is an internal Vim error. Please try to find out how it can be | |
| 367 reproduced, and submit a bug report |bugreport.vim|. | |
| 368 | |
| 369 *E173* > | |
| 370 {number} more files to edit | |
| 371 | |
| 372 You are trying to exit, while the last item in the argument list has not been | |
| 373 edited. This protects you from accidentally exiting when you still have more | |
| 374 files to work on. See |argument-list|. If you do want to exit, just do it | |
| 375 again and it will work. | |
| 376 | |
| 377 *E23* *E194* > | |
| 378 No alternate file | |
| 379 No alternate file name to substitute for '#' | |
| 380 | |
| 381 The alternate file is not defined yet. See |alternate-file|. | |
| 382 | |
| 383 *E32* > | |
| 384 No file name | |
| 385 | |
| 386 The current buffer has no name. To write it, use ":w fname". Or give the | |
| 387 buffer a name with ":file fname". | |
| 388 | |
| 389 *E141* > | |
| 390 No file name for buffer {number} | |
| 391 | |
| 392 One of the buffers that was changed does not have a file name. Therefore it | |
| 393 cannot be written. You need to give the buffer a file name: > | |
| 394 :buffer {number} | |
| 395 :file {filename} | |
| 396 < | |
| 397 *E33* > | |
| 398 No previous substitute regular expression | |
| 399 | |
| 400 When using the '~' character in a pattern, it is replaced with the previously | |
| 401 used pattern in a ":substitute" command. This fails when no such command has | |
| 167 | 402 been used yet. See |/~|. This also happens when using ":s/pat/%/", where the |
| 403 "%" stands for the previous substitute string. | |
| 7 | 404 |
| 405 *E35* > | |
| 406 No previous regular expression | |
| 407 | |
| 408 When using an empty search pattern, the previous search pattern is used. But | |
| 409 that is not possible if there was no previous search. | |
| 410 | |
| 411 *E24* > | |
| 412 No such abbreviation | |
| 413 | |
| 414 You have used an ":unabbreviate" command with an argument which is not an | |
| 415 existing abbreviation. All variations of this command give the same message: | |
| 416 ":cunabbrev", ":iunabbrev", etc. Check for trailing white space. | |
| 417 | |
| 418 > | |
| 419 /dev/dsp: No such file or directory | |
| 420 | |
| 421 Only given for GTK GUI with Gnome support. Gnome tries to use the audio | |
| 422 device and it isn't present. You can ignore this error. | |
| 423 | |
| 424 *E31* > | |
| 425 No such mapping | |
| 426 | |
| 427 You have used an ":unmap" command with an argument which is not an existing | |
| 428 mapping. All variations of this command give the same message: ":cunmap", | |
| 826 | 429 ":unmap!", etc. A few hints: |
| 430 - Check for trailing white space. | |
| 431 - If the mapping is buffer-local you need to use ":unmap <buffer>". | |
| 432 |:map-<buffer>| | |
| 7 | 433 |
| 434 *E37* *E89* > | |
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| 7 | 437 |
| 438 You are trying to |abandon| a file that has changes. Vim protects you from | |
| 439 losing your work. You can either write the changed file with ":w", or, if you | |
| 440 are sure, |abandon| it anyway, and lose all the changes. This can be done by | |
| 441 adding a '!' character just after the command you used. Example: > | |
| 442 :e other_file | |
| 443 changes to: > | |
| 444 :e! other_file | |
| 445 < | |
| 446 *E162* > | |
| 447 No write since last change for buffer "{name}" | |
| 448 | |
| 449 This appears when you try to exit Vim while some buffers are changed. You | |
| 450 will either have to write the changed buffer (with |:w|), or use a command to | |
| 451 abandon the buffer forcefully, e.g., with ":qa!". Careful, make sure you | |
| 452 don't throw away changes you really want to keep. You might have forgotten | |
| 453 about a buffer, especially when 'hidden' is set. | |
| 454 | |
| 22 | 455 > |
| 456 [No write since last change] | |
| 457 | |
| 458 This appears when executing a shell command while at least one buffer was | |
| 459 changed. To avoid the message reset the 'warn' option. | |
| 460 | |
| 7 | 461 *E38* > |
| 462 Null argument | |
| 463 | |
| 464 Something inside Vim went wrong and resulted in a NULL pointer. If you know | |
| 465 how to reproduce this problem, please report it. |bugs| | |
| 466 | |
| 467 *E41* *E82* *E83* *E342* > | |
| 468 Out of memory! | |
| 469 Out of memory! (allocating {number} bytes) | |
| 470 Cannot allocate any buffer, exiting... | |
| 471 Cannot allocate buffer, using other one... | |
| 472 | |
| 473 Oh, oh. You must have been doing something complicated, or some other program | |
| 474 is consuming your memory. Be careful! Vim is not completely prepared for an | |
| 475 out-of-memory situation. First make sure that any changes are saved. Then | |
| 476 try to solve the memory shortage. To stay on the safe side, exit Vim and | |
| 2415 | 477 start again. |
| 478 | |
| 479 Buffers are only partly kept in memory, thus editing a very large file is | |
| 480 unlikely to cause an out-of-memory situation. Undo information is completely | |
| 481 in memory, you can reduce that with these options: | |
| 482 - 'undolevels' Set to a low value, or to -1 to disable undo completely. This | |
| 483 helps for a change that affects all lines. | |
| 484 - 'undoreload' Set to zero to disable. | |
| 485 | |
| 7 | 486 *E339* > |
| 487 Pattern too long | |
| 488 | |
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| 7 | 490 longer than about 65000 characters. Try using a shorter pattern. |
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| 7 | 493 |
| 494 *E45* > | |
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| 7 | 496 |
| 497 You are trying to write a file that was marked as read-only. To write the | |
| 498 file anyway, either reset the 'readonly' option, or add a '!' character just | |
| 499 after the command you used. Example: > | |
| 500 :w | |
| 501 changes to: > | |
| 502 :w! | |
| 503 < | |
| 504 *E294* *E295* *E301* > | |
| 505 Read error in swap file | |
| 506 Seek error in swap file read | |
| 507 Oops, lost the swap file!!! | |
| 508 | |
| 509 Vim tried to read text from the |swap-file|, but something went wrong. The | |
| 510 text in the related buffer may now be corrupted! Check carefully before you | |
| 511 write a buffer. You may want to write it in another file and check for | |
| 512 differences. | |
| 513 | |
| 514 *E192* > | |
| 515 Recursive use of :normal too deep | |
| 516 | |
| 517 You are using a ":normal" command, whose argument again uses a ":normal" | |
| 518 command in a recursive way. This is restricted to 'maxmapdepth' levels. This | |
| 519 example illustrates how to get this message: > | |
| 520 :map gq :normal gq<CR> | |
| 521 If you type "gq", it will execute this mapping, which will call "gq" again. | |
| 522 | |
| 523 *E22* > | |
| 524 Scripts nested too deep | |
| 525 | |
| 526 Scripts can be read with the "-s" command-line argument and with the ":source" | |
| 527 command. The script can then again read another script. This can continue | |
| 528 for about 14 levels. When more nesting is done, Vim assumes that there is a | |
| 529 recursive loop somewhere and stops with this error message. | |
| 530 | |
| 531 *E319* > | |
| 532 Sorry, the command is not available in this version | |
| 533 | |
| 534 You have used a command that is not present in the version of Vim you are | |
| 535 using. When compiling Vim, many different features can be enabled or | |
| 536 disabled. This depends on how big Vim has chosen to be and the operating | |
| 537 system. See |+feature-list| for when which feature is available. The | |
| 538 |:version| command shows which feature Vim was compiled with. | |
| 539 | |
| 540 *E300* > | |
| 541 Swap file already exists (symlink attack?) | |
| 542 | |
| 543 This message appears when Vim is trying to open a swap file and finds it | |
| 544 already exists or finds a symbolic link in its place. This shouldn't happen, | |
| 545 because Vim already checked that the file doesn't exist. Either someone else | |
| 546 opened the same file at exactly the same moment (very unlikely) or someone is | |
| 547 attempting a symlink attack (could happen when editing a file in /tmp or when | |
| 548 'directory' starts with "/tmp", which is a bad choice). | |
| 549 | |
| 550 *E432* > | |
| 551 Tags file not sorted: {file name} | |
| 552 | |
| 553 Vim (and Vi) expect tags files to be sorted in ASCII order. Binary searching | |
| 554 can then be used, which is a lot faster than a linear search. If your tags | |
| 555 files are not properly sorted, reset the |'tagbsearch'| option. | |
| 556 This message is only given when Vim detects a problem when searching for a | |
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| 7 | 558 properly sorted. |
| 559 | |
| 560 *E424* > | |
| 561 Too many different highlighting attributes in use | |
| 562 | |
| 563 Vim can only handle about 223 different kinds of highlighting. If you run | |
| 564 into this limit, you have used too many |:highlight| commands with different | |
| 565 arguments. A ":highlight link" is not counted. | |
| 566 | |
| 567 *E77* > | |
| 568 Too many file names | |
| 569 | |
| 570 When expanding file names, more than one match was found. Only one match is | |
| 571 allowed for the command that was used. | |
| 572 | |
| 573 *E303* > | |
| 574 Unable to open swap file for "{filename}", recovery impossible | |
| 575 | |
| 576 Vim was not able to create a swap file. You can still edit the file, but if | |
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| 7 | 578 memory when editing a big file. You may want to change the 'directory' option |
| 579 to avoid this error. See |swap-file|. | |
| 580 | |
| 581 *E140* > | |
| 582 Use ! to write partial buffer | |
| 583 | |
| 584 When using a range to write part of a buffer, it is unusual to overwrite the | |
| 585 original file. It is probably a mistake (e.g., when Visual mode was active | |
| 586 when using ":w"), therefore Vim requires using a ! after the command, e.g.: | |
| 587 ":3,10w!". | |
| 588 > | |
| 589 | |
| 590 Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>Escape,_Key_Cancel" to type | |
| 591 VirtualBinding | |
| 592 | |
| 593 Messages like this appear when starting up. This is not a Vim problem, your | |
| 594 X11 configuration is wrong. You can find a hint on how to solve this here: | |
| 595 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/12179. | |
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| 7 | 597 |
| 598 *W10* > | |
| 599 Warning: Changing a readonly file | |
| 600 | |
| 601 The file is read-only and you are making a change to it anyway. You can use | |
| 602 the |FileChangedRO| autocommand event to avoid this message (the autocommand | |
| 603 must reset the 'readonly' option). See 'modifiable' to completely disallow | |
| 604 making changes to a file. | |
| 548 | 605 This message is only given for the first change after 'readonly' has been set. |
| 7 | 606 |
| 607 *W13* > | |
| 608 Warning: File "{filename}" has been created after editing started | |
| 609 | |
| 610 You are editing a file in Vim when it didn't exist, but it does exist now. | |
| 611 You will have to decide if you want to keep the version in Vim or the newly | |
| 612 created file. This message is not given when 'buftype' is not empty. | |
| 613 | |
| 614 *W11* > | |
| 615 Warning: File "{filename}" has changed since editing started | |
| 616 | |
| 617 The file which you have started editing has got another timestamp and the | |
| 618 contents changed (more precisely: When reading the file again with the current | |
| 619 option settings and autocommands you would end up with different text). This | |
| 620 probably means that some other program changed the file. You will have to | |
| 621 find out what happened, and decide which version of the file you want to keep. | |
| 622 Set the 'autoread' option if you want to do this automatically. | |
| 623 This message is not given when 'buftype' is not empty. | |
| 624 | |
| 625 There is one situation where you get this message even though there is nothing | |
| 626 wrong: If you save a file in Windows on the day the daylight saving time | |
| 627 starts. It can be fixed in one of these ways: | |
| 628 - Add this line in your autoexec.bat: > | |
| 629 SET TZ=-1 | |
| 630 < Adjust the "-1" for your time zone. | |
| 631 - Disable "automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes". | |
| 632 - Just write the file again the next day. Or set your clock to the next day, | |
| 633 write the file twice and set the clock back. | |
| 634 | |
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| 7 | 638 *W12* > |
| 639 Warning: File "{filename}" has changed and the buffer was changed in Vim as well | |
| 640 | |
| 641 Like the above, and the buffer for the file was changed in this Vim as well. | |
| 642 You will have to decide if you want to keep the version in this Vim or the one | |
| 643 on disk. This message is not given when 'buftype' is not empty. | |
| 644 | |
| 645 *W16* > | |
| 646 Warning: Mode of file "{filename}" has changed since editing started | |
| 647 | |
| 648 When the timestamp for a buffer was changed and the contents are still the | |
| 649 same but the mode (permissions) have changed. This usually occurs when | |
| 650 checking out a file from a version control system, which causes the read-only | |
| 651 bit to be reset. It should be safe to reload the file. Set 'autoread' to | |
| 652 automatically reload the file. | |
| 653 | |
| 654 *E211* > | |
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| 7 | 656 |
| 657 The file which you have started editing has disappeared, or is no longer | |
| 658 accessible. Make sure you write the buffer somewhere to avoid losing | |
| 659 changes. This message is not given when 'buftype' is not empty. | |
| 660 | |
| 661 *W14* > | |
| 662 Warning: List of file names overflow | |
| 663 | |
| 664 You must be using an awful lot of buffers. It's now possible that two buffers | |
| 665 have the same number, which causes various problems. You might want to exit | |
| 666 Vim and restart it. | |
| 667 | |
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| 7 | 674 *E296* *E297* > |
| 675 Seek error in swap file write | |
| 676 Write error in swap file | |
| 677 | |
| 678 This mostly happens when the disk is full. Vim could not write text into the | |
| 679 |swap-file|. It's not directly harmful, but when Vim unexpectedly exits some | |
| 680 text may be lost without recovery being possible. Vim might run out of memory | |
| 681 when this problem persists. | |
| 682 | |
| 683 *connection-refused* > | |
| 684 Xlib: connection to "<machine-name:0.0" refused by server | |
| 685 | |
| 686 This happens when Vim tries to connect to the X server, but the X server does | |
| 687 not allow a connection. The connection to the X server is needed to be able | |
| 688 to restore the title and for the xterm clipboard support. Unfortunately this | |
| 689 error message cannot be avoided, except by disabling the |+xterm_clipboard| | |
| 690 and |+X11| features. | |
| 691 | |
| 692 *E10* > | |
| 693 \\ should be followed by /, ? or & | |
| 694 | |
| 695 A command line started with a backslash or the range of a command contained a | |
| 696 backslash in a wrong place. This is often caused by command-line continuation | |
| 697 being disabled. Remove the 'C' flag from the 'cpoptions' option to enable it. | |
| 20 | 698 Or use ":set nocp". |
| 7 | 699 |
| 700 *E471* > | |
| 701 Argument required | |
| 702 | |
| 703 This happens when an Ex command with mandatory argument(s) was executed, but | |
| 704 no argument has been specified. | |
| 705 | |
| 16267 | 706 *E474* *E475* *E983* > |
| 7 | 707 Invalid argument |
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| 16267 | 709 Duplicate argument: {arg} |
| 7 | 710 |
| 16267 | 711 An Ex command or function has been executed, but an invalid argument has been |
| 712 specified. | |
| 7 | 713 |
| 714 *E488* > | |
| 715 Trailing characters | |
| 716 | |
| 717 An argument has been added to an Ex command that does not permit one. | |
| 718 | |
| 719 *E477* *E478* > | |
| 720 No ! allowed | |
| 721 Don't panic! | |
| 722 | |
| 723 You have added a "!" after an Ex command that doesn't permit one. | |
| 724 | |
| 725 *E481* > | |
| 726 No range allowed | |
| 727 | |
| 728 A range was specified for an Ex command that doesn't permit one. See | |
| 729 |cmdline-ranges|. | |
| 730 | |
| 731 *E482* *E483* > | |
| 732 Can't create file {filename} | |
| 733 Can't get temp file name | |
| 734 | |
| 735 Vim cannot create a temporary file. | |
| 736 | |
| 737 *E484* *E485* > | |
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| 7 | 740 |
| 4186 | 741 Vim cannot read a temporary file. Especially on Windows, this can be caused |
| 742 by wrong escaping of special characters for cmd.exe; the approach was | |
| 743 changed with patch 7.3.443. Try using |shellescape()| for all shell arguments | |
| 744 given to |system()|, or explicitly add escaping with ^. Also see | |
| 745 'shellxquote' and 'shellxescape'. | |
| 7 | 746 |
| 747 *E464* > | |
| 748 Ambiguous use of user-defined command | |
| 749 | |
| 750 There are two user-defined commands with a common name prefix, and you used | |
| 751 Command-line completion to execute one of them. |user-cmd-ambiguous| | |
| 752 Example: > | |
| 753 :command MyCommand1 echo "one" | |
| 754 :command MyCommand2 echo "two" | |
| 755 :MyCommand | |
| 756 < | |
| 757 *E492* > | |
| 758 Not an editor command | |
| 759 | |
| 760 You tried to execute a command that is neither an Ex command nor | |
| 761 a user-defined command. | |
| 762 | |
| 11262 | 763 *E943* > |
| 764 Command table needs to be updated, run 'make cmdidxs' | |
| 765 | |
| 766 This can only happen when changing the source code, when adding a command in | |
| 767 src/ex_cmds.h. The lookup table then needs to be updated, by running: > | |
| 768 make cmdidxs | |
| 769 | |
| 7 | 770 ============================================================================== |
| 771 3. Messages *messages* | |
| 772 | |
| 773 This is an (incomplete) overview of various messages that Vim gives: | |
| 774 | |
| 446 | 775 *hit-enter* *press-enter* *hit-return* |
| 776 *press-return* *hit-enter-prompt* | |
| 7 | 777 |
| 446 | 778 Press ENTER or type command to continue |
| 7 | 779 |
| 780 This message is given when there is something on the screen for you to read, | |
| 781 and the screen is about to be redrawn: | |
| 782 - After executing an external command (e.g., ":!ls" and "="). | |
| 783 - Something is displayed on the status line that is longer than the width of | |
| 784 the window, or runs into the 'showcmd' or 'ruler' output. | |
| 785 | |
| 446 | 786 -> Press <Enter> or <Space> to redraw the screen and continue, without that |
| 787 key being used otherwise. | |
| 788 -> Press ':' or any other Normal mode command character to start that command. | |
| 698 | 789 -> Press 'k', <Up>, 'u', 'b' or 'g' to scroll back in the messages. This |
| 790 works the same way as at the |more-prompt|. Only works when 'compatible' | |
| 791 is off and 'more' is on. | |
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| 446 | 795 -> Press <C-Y> to copy (yank) a modeless selection to the clipboard register. |
| 7 | 796 -> Use a menu. The characters defined for Cmdline-mode are used. |
| 797 -> When 'mouse' contains the 'r' flag, clicking the left mouse button works | |
| 798 like pressing <Space>. This makes it impossible to select text though. | |
| 799 -> For the GUI clicking the left mouse button in the last line works like | |
| 800 pressing <Space>. | |
| 801 {Vi: only ":" commands are interpreted} | |
| 802 | |
| 447 | 803 If you accidentally hit <Enter> or <Space> and you want to see the displayed |
| 804 text then use |g<|. This only works when 'more' is set. | |
| 805 | |
| 7 | 806 To reduce the number of hit-enter prompts: |
| 807 - Set 'cmdheight' to 2 or higher. | |
| 808 - Add flags to 'shortmess'. | |
| 809 - Reset 'showcmd' and/or 'ruler'. | |
| 810 | |
| 539 | 811 If your script causes the hit-enter prompt and you don't know why, you may |
| 812 find the |v:scrollstart| variable useful. | |
| 813 | |
| 7 | 814 Also see 'mouse'. The hit-enter message is highlighted with the |hl-Question| |
| 815 group. | |
| 816 | |
| 817 | |
| 818 *more-prompt* *pager* > | |
| 819 -- More -- | |
| 446 | 820 -- More -- SPACE/d/j: screen/page/line down, b/u/k: up, q: quit |
| 7 | 821 |
| 822 This message is given when the screen is filled with messages. It is only | |
| 823 given when the 'more' option is on. It is highlighted with the |hl-MoreMsg| | |
| 824 group. | |
| 825 | |
| 826 Type effect ~ | |
| 827 <CR> or <NL> or j or <Down> one more line | |
| 446 | 828 d down a page (half a screen) |
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| 447 | 830 G down all the way, until the hit-enter |
| 856 | 831 prompt |
| 446 | 832 |
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| 446 | 837 |
| 7 | 838 q, <Esc> or CTRL-C stop the listing |
| 839 : stop the listing and enter a | |
| 840 command-line | |
| 841 <C-Y> yank (copy) a modeless selection to | |
| 842 the clipboard ("* and "+ registers) | |
| 843 {menu-entry} what the menu is defined to in | |
| 844 Cmdline-mode. | |
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patch 8.1.1280: remarks about functionality not in Vi clutters the help
Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
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845 <LeftMouse> next page (*) |
| 7 | 846 |
| 847 Any other key causes the meaning of the keys to be displayed. | |
| 848 | |
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patch 8.1.1280: remarks about functionality not in Vi clutters the help
Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
parents:
16267
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849 (*) Clicking the left mouse button only works: |
| 7 | 850 - For the GUI: in the last line of the screen. |
| 851 - When 'r' is included in 'mouse' (but then selecting text won't work). | |
| 852 | |
| 853 | |
| 854 Note: The typed key is directly obtained from the terminal, it is not mapped | |
| 855 and typeahead is ignored. | |
| 856 | |
| 532 | 857 The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of previous command output. |
| 858 This is especially useful if you accidentally typed <Space> at the hit-enter | |
| 859 prompt. | |
| 860 | |
| 14421 | 861 vim:tw=78:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl: |