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| 22171 | 1 *message.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2020 Sep 07 |
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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 | |
| 21991 | 22 :mes[sages] Show all messages. |
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| 21991 | 28 :{count}mes[sages] clear |
| 29 Clear messages, keeping only the {count} most | |
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32 The number of remembered messages is fixed at 20 for the tiny version and 200 |
| 625 | 33 for other versions. |
| 7 | 34 |
| 447 | 35 *g<* |
| 36 The "g<" command can be used to see the last page of previous command output. | |
| 532 | 37 This is especially useful if you accidentally typed <Space> at the hit-enter |
| 1118 | 38 prompt. You are then back at the hit-enter prompt and can then scroll further |
| 39 back. | |
| 2826 | 40 Note: If the output has been stopped with "q" at the more prompt, it will only |
| 41 be displayed up to this point. | |
| 447 | 42 The previous command output is cleared when another command produces output. |
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43 The "g<" output is not redirected. |
| 447 | 44 |
| 7 | 45 If you are using translated messages, the first printed line tells who |
| 46 maintains the messages or the translations. You can use this to contact the | |
| 47 maintainer when you spot a mistake. | |
| 48 | |
| 49 If you want to find help on a specific (error) message, use the ID at the | |
| 50 start of the message. For example, to get help on the message: > | |
| 51 | |
| 52 E72: Close error on swap file | |
| 53 | |
| 54 or (translated): > | |
| 55 | |
| 56 E72: Errore durante chiusura swap file | |
| 57 | |
| 58 Use: > | |
| 59 | |
| 60 :help E72 | |
| 61 | |
| 62 If you are lazy, it also works without the shift key: > | |
| 63 | |
| 64 :help e72 | |
| 65 | |
| 66 ============================================================================== | |
| 1618 | 67 2. Error messages *error-messages* *errors* |
| 7 | 68 |
| 69 When an error message is displayed, but it is removed before you could read | |
| 70 it, you can see it again with: > | |
| 71 :echo errmsg | |
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72 Or view a list of recent messages with: > |
| 7 | 73 :messages |
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74 See `:messages` above. |
| 7 | 75 |
| 76 | |
| 77 LIST OF MESSAGES | |
| 22171 | 78 *E222* *E228* *E232* *E293* *E298* *E304* *E317* |
| 7 | 79 *E318* *E356* *E438* *E439* *E440* *E316* *E320* *E322* |
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| 7 | 81 Add to read buffer |
| 82 makemap: Illegal mode | |
| 83 Cannot create BalloonEval with both message and callback | |
| 84 Hangul automata ERROR | |
| 85 block was not locked | |
| 86 Didn't get block nr {N}? | |
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87 ml_upd_block0(): Didn't get block 0?? |
| 7 | 88 pointer block id wrong {N} |
| 89 Updated too many blocks? | |
| 90 get_varp ERROR | |
| 91 u_undo: line numbers wrong | |
| 92 undo list corrupt | |
| 93 undo line missing | |
| 94 ml_get: cannot find line {N} | |
| 95 cannot find line {N} | |
| 96 line number out of range: {N} past the end | |
| 97 line count wrong in block {N} | |
| 98 Internal error | |
| 84 | 99 Internal error: {function} |
| 7 | 100 fatal error in cs_manage_matches |
| 13231 | 101 Invalid count for del_bytes(): {N} |
| 7 | 102 |
| 103 This is an internal error. If you can reproduce it, please send in a bug | |
| 104 report. |bugs| | |
| 105 | |
| 106 > | |
| 107 ATTENTION | |
| 108 Found a swap file by the name ... | |
| 109 | |
| 110 See |ATTENTION|. | |
| 111 | |
| 112 *E92* > | |
| 113 Buffer {N} not found | |
| 114 | |
| 115 The buffer you requested does not exist. This can also happen when you have | |
| 116 wiped out a buffer which contains a mark or is referenced in another way. | |
| 117 |:bwipeout| | |
| 118 | |
| 119 *E95* > | |
| 120 Buffer with this name already exists | |
| 121 | |
| 122 You cannot have two buffers with the same name. | |
| 123 | |
| 124 *E72* > | |
| 125 Close error on swap file | |
| 126 | |
| 127 The |swap-file|, that is used to keep a copy of the edited text, could not be | |
| 128 closed properly. Mostly harmless. | |
| 129 | |
| 130 *E169* > | |
| 131 Command too recursive | |
| 132 | |
| 133 This happens when an Ex command executes an Ex command that executes an Ex | |
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136 |:execute| or |:source| command is involved. |
| 7 | 137 |
| 138 *E254* > | |
| 139 Cannot allocate color {name} | |
| 140 | |
| 141 The color name {name} is unknown. See |gui-colors| for a list of colors that | |
| 142 are available on most systems. | |
| 143 | |
| 144 *E458* > | |
| 145 Cannot allocate colormap entry, some colors may be incorrect | |
| 146 | |
| 147 This means that there are not enough colors available for Vim. It will still | |
| 148 run, but some of the colors will not appear in the specified color. Try | |
| 149 stopping other applications that use many colors, or start them after starting | |
| 150 gvim. | |
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151 Browsers are known to consume a lot of colors. You can avoid this with |
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| 7 | 153 netscape -install |
| 154 Or tell it to limit to a certain number of colors (64 should work well): > | |
| 155 netscape -ncols 64 | |
| 156 This can also be done with a line in your Xdefaults file: > | |
| 157 Netscape*installColormap: Yes | |
| 158 or > | |
| 159 Netscape*maxImageColors: 64 | |
| 160 < | |
| 161 *E79* > | |
| 162 Cannot expand wildcards | |
| 163 | |
| 164 A filename contains a strange combination of characters, which causes Vim to | |
| 165 attempt expanding wildcards but this fails. This does NOT mean that no | |
| 166 matching file names could be found, but that the pattern was illegal. | |
| 167 | |
| 168 *E459* > | |
| 169 Cannot go back to previous directory | |
| 170 | |
| 171 While expanding a file name, Vim failed to go back to the previously used | |
| 172 directory. All file names being used may be invalid now! You need to have | |
| 173 execute permission on the current directory. | |
| 174 | |
| 175 *E190* *E212* > | |
| 176 Cannot open "{filename}" for writing | |
| 177 Can't open file for writing | |
| 178 | |
| 179 For some reason the file you are writing to cannot be created or overwritten. | |
| 180 The reason could be that you do not have permission to write in the directory | |
| 181 or the file name is not valid. | |
| 182 | |
| 183 *E166* > | |
| 184 Can't open linked file for writing | |
| 185 | |
| 186 You are trying to write to a file which can't be overwritten, and the file is | |
| 187 a link (either a hard link or a symbolic link). Writing might still be | |
| 188 possible if the directory that contains the link or the file is writable, but | |
| 189 Vim now doesn't know if you want to delete the link and write the file in its | |
| 190 place, or if you want to delete the file itself and write the new file in its | |
| 191 place. If you really want to write the file under this name, you have to | |
| 192 manually delete the link or the file, or change the permissions so that Vim | |
| 193 can overwrite. | |
| 194 | |
| 195 *E46* > | |
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196 Cannot change read-only variable "{name}" |
| 7 | 197 |
| 198 You are trying to assign a value to an argument of a function |a:var| or a Vim | |
| 199 internal variable |v:var| which is read-only. | |
| 200 | |
| 201 *E90* > | |
| 202 Cannot unload last buffer | |
| 203 | |
| 204 Vim always requires one buffer to be loaded, otherwise there would be nothing | |
| 205 to display in the window. | |
| 206 | |
| 207 *E40* > | |
| 208 Can't open errorfile <filename> | |
| 209 | |
| 210 When using the ":make" or ":grep" commands: The file used to save the error | |
| 211 messages or grep output cannot be opened. This can have several causes: | |
| 212 - 'shellredir' has a wrong value. | |
| 213 - The shell changes directory, causing the error file to be written in another | |
| 214 directory. This could be fixed by changing 'makeef', but then the make | |
| 215 command is still executed in the wrong directory. | |
| 216 - 'makeef' has a wrong value. | |
| 217 - The 'grepprg' or 'makeprg' could not be executed. This cannot always be | |
| 218 detected (especially on MS-Windows). Check your $PATH. | |
| 219 | |
| 220 > | |
| 221 Can't open file C:\TEMP\VIoD243.TMP | |
| 222 | |
| 223 On MS-Windows, this message appears when the output of an external command was | |
| 224 to be read, but the command didn't run successfully. This can be caused by | |
| 225 many things. Check the 'shell', 'shellquote', 'shellxquote', 'shellslash' and | |
| 226 related options. It might also be that the external command was not found, | |
| 227 there is no different error message for that. | |
| 228 | |
| 229 *E12* > | |
| 230 Command not allowed from exrc/vimrc in current dir or tag search | |
| 231 | |
| 232 Some commands are not allowed for security reasons. These commands mostly | |
| 233 come from a .exrc or .vimrc file in the current directory, or from a tags | |
| 234 file. Also see 'secure'. | |
| 235 | |
| 236 *E74* > | |
| 237 Command too complex | |
| 238 | |
| 239 A mapping resulted in a very long command string. Could be caused by a | |
| 240 mapping that indirectly calls itself. | |
| 241 | |
| 242 > | |
| 243 CONVERSION ERROR | |
| 244 | |
| 245 When writing a file and the text "CONVERSION ERROR" appears, this means that | |
| 246 some bits were lost when converting text from the internally used UTF-8 to the | |
| 247 format of the file. The file will not be marked unmodified. If you care | |
| 248 about the loss of information, set the 'fileencoding' option to another value | |
| 249 that can handle the characters in the buffer and write again. If you don't | |
| 250 care, you can abandon the buffer or reset the 'modified' option. | |
| 16808 | 251 If there is a backup file, when 'writebackup' or 'backup' is set, it will not |
| 252 be deleted, so you can move it back into place if you want to discard the | |
| 253 changes. | |
| 7 | 254 |
| 255 *E302* > | |
| 256 Could not rename swap file | |
| 257 | |
| 258 When the file name changes, Vim tries to rename the |swap-file| as well. | |
| 259 This failed and the old swap file is now still used. Mostly harmless. | |
| 260 | |
| 261 *E43* *E44* > | |
| 262 Damaged match string | |
| 263 Corrupted regexp program | |
| 264 | |
| 265 Something inside Vim went wrong and resulted in a corrupted regexp. If you | |
| 266 know how to reproduce this problem, please report it. |bugs| | |
| 267 | |
| 268 *E208* *E209* *E210* > | |
| 269 Error writing to "{filename}" | |
| 270 Error closing "{filename}" | |
| 271 Error reading "{filename}" | |
| 272 | |
| 273 This occurs when Vim is trying to rename a file, but a simple change of file | |
| 274 name doesn't work. Then the file will be copied, but somehow this failed. | |
| 275 The result may be that both the original file and the destination file exist | |
| 276 and the destination file may be incomplete. | |
| 277 | |
| 278 > | |
| 279 Vim: Error reading input, exiting... | |
| 280 | |
| 281 This occurs when Vim cannot read typed characters while input is required. | |
| 282 Vim got stuck, the only thing it can do is exit. This can happen when both | |
| 283 stdin and stderr are redirected and executing a script that doesn't exit Vim. | |
| 284 | |
| 285 *E47* > | |
| 286 Error while reading errorfile | |
| 287 | |
| 288 Reading the error file was not possible. This is NOT caused by an error | |
| 289 message that was not recognized. | |
| 290 | |
| 291 *E80* > | |
| 292 Error while writing | |
| 293 | |
| 294 Writing a file was not completed successfully. The file is probably | |
| 295 incomplete. | |
| 296 | |
| 297 *E13* *E189* > | |
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299 "{filename}" exists (add ! to override) |
| 7 | 300 |
| 301 You are protected from accidentally overwriting a file. When you want to | |
| 302 write anyway, use the same command, but add a "!" just after the command. | |
| 303 Example: > | |
| 304 :w /tmp/test | |
| 305 changes to: > | |
| 306 :w! /tmp/test | |
| 307 < | |
| 457 | 308 *E768* > |
| 309 Swap file exists: {filename} (:silent! overrides) | |
| 310 | |
| 311 You are protected from overwriting a file that is being edited by Vim. This | |
| 312 happens when you use ":w! filename" and a swapfile is found. | |
| 313 - If the swapfile was left over from an old crashed edit session you may want | |
| 314 to delete the swapfile. Edit {filename} to find out information about the | |
| 315 swapfile. | |
| 316 - If you want to write anyway prepend ":silent!" to the command. For example: > | |
| 856 | 317 :silent! w! /tmp/test |
| 457 | 318 < The special command is needed, since you already added the ! for overwriting |
| 319 an existing file. | |
| 320 | |
| 7 | 321 *E139* > |
| 322 File is loaded in another buffer | |
| 323 | |
| 324 You are trying to write a file under a name which is also used in another | |
| 325 buffer. This would result in two versions of the same file. | |
| 326 | |
| 327 *E142* > | |
| 328 File not written: Writing is disabled by 'write' option | |
| 329 | |
| 330 The 'write' option is off. This makes all commands that try to write a file | |
| 331 generate this message. This could be caused by a |-m| commandline argument. | |
| 332 You can switch the 'write' option on with ":set write". | |
| 333 | |
| 334 *E25* > | |
| 335 GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time | |
| 336 | |
| 337 You are running a version of Vim that doesn't include the GUI code. Therefore | |
| 338 "gvim" and ":gui" don't work. | |
| 339 | |
| 340 *E49* > | |
| 341 Invalid scroll size | |
| 342 | |
| 343 This is caused by setting an invalid value for the 'scroll', 'scrolljump' or | |
| 344 'scrolloff' options. | |
| 345 | |
| 346 *E17* > | |
| 347 "{filename}" is a directory | |
| 348 | |
| 349 You tried to write a file with the name of a directory. This is not possible. | |
| 350 You probably need to append a file name. | |
| 351 | |
| 352 *E19* > | |
| 353 Mark has invalid line number | |
| 354 | |
| 355 You are using a mark that has a line number that doesn't exist. This can | |
| 356 happen when you have a mark in another file, and some other program has | |
| 357 deleted lines from it. | |
| 358 | |
| 359 *E219* *E220* > | |
| 360 Missing {. | |
| 361 Missing }. | |
| 362 | |
| 363 Using a {} construct in a file name, but there is a { without a matching } or | |
| 364 the other way around. It should be used like this: {foo,bar}. This matches | |
| 365 "foo" and "bar". | |
| 366 | |
| 367 *E315* > | |
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| 7 | 369 |
| 370 This is an internal Vim error. Please try to find out how it can be | |
| 371 reproduced, and submit a bug report |bugreport.vim|. | |
| 372 | |
| 373 *E173* > | |
| 374 {number} more files to edit | |
| 375 | |
| 376 You are trying to exit, while the last item in the argument list has not been | |
| 377 edited. This protects you from accidentally exiting when you still have more | |
| 378 files to work on. See |argument-list|. If you do want to exit, just do it | |
| 379 again and it will work. | |
| 380 | |
| 381 *E23* *E194* > | |
| 382 No alternate file | |
| 383 No alternate file name to substitute for '#' | |
| 384 | |
| 385 The alternate file is not defined yet. See |alternate-file|. | |
| 386 | |
| 387 *E32* > | |
| 388 No file name | |
| 389 | |
| 390 The current buffer has no name. To write it, use ":w fname". Or give the | |
| 391 buffer a name with ":file fname". | |
| 392 | |
| 393 *E141* > | |
| 394 No file name for buffer {number} | |
| 395 | |
| 396 One of the buffers that was changed does not have a file name. Therefore it | |
| 397 cannot be written. You need to give the buffer a file name: > | |
| 398 :buffer {number} | |
| 399 :file {filename} | |
| 400 < | |
| 401 *E33* > | |
| 402 No previous substitute regular expression | |
| 403 | |
| 404 When using the '~' character in a pattern, it is replaced with the previously | |
| 405 used pattern in a ":substitute" command. This fails when no such command has | |
| 167 | 406 been used yet. See |/~|. This also happens when using ":s/pat/%/", where the |
| 407 "%" stands for the previous substitute string. | |
| 7 | 408 |
| 409 *E35* > | |
| 410 No previous regular expression | |
| 411 | |
| 412 When using an empty search pattern, the previous search pattern is used. But | |
| 413 that is not possible if there was no previous search. | |
| 414 | |
| 415 *E24* > | |
| 416 No such abbreviation | |
| 417 | |
| 418 You have used an ":unabbreviate" command with an argument which is not an | |
| 419 existing abbreviation. All variations of this command give the same message: | |
| 420 ":cunabbrev", ":iunabbrev", etc. Check for trailing white space. | |
| 421 | |
| 422 > | |
| 423 /dev/dsp: No such file or directory | |
| 424 | |
| 425 Only given for GTK GUI with Gnome support. Gnome tries to use the audio | |
| 426 device and it isn't present. You can ignore this error. | |
| 427 | |
| 428 *E31* > | |
| 429 No such mapping | |
| 430 | |
| 431 You have used an ":unmap" command with an argument which is not an existing | |
| 432 mapping. All variations of this command give the same message: ":cunmap", | |
| 826 | 433 ":unmap!", etc. A few hints: |
| 434 - Check for trailing white space. | |
| 435 - If the mapping is buffer-local you need to use ":unmap <buffer>". | |
| 436 |:map-<buffer>| | |
| 7 | 437 |
| 438 *E37* *E89* > | |
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| 7 | 441 |
| 442 You are trying to |abandon| a file that has changes. Vim protects you from | |
| 443 losing your work. You can either write the changed file with ":w", or, if you | |
| 444 are sure, |abandon| it anyway, and lose all the changes. This can be done by | |
| 445 adding a '!' character just after the command you used. Example: > | |
| 446 :e other_file | |
| 447 changes to: > | |
| 448 :e! other_file | |
| 449 < | |
| 450 *E162* > | |
| 451 No write since last change for buffer "{name}" | |
| 452 | |
| 453 This appears when you try to exit Vim while some buffers are changed. You | |
| 454 will either have to write the changed buffer (with |:w|), or use a command to | |
| 455 abandon the buffer forcefully, e.g., with ":qa!". Careful, make sure you | |
| 456 don't throw away changes you really want to keep. You might have forgotten | |
| 457 about a buffer, especially when 'hidden' is set. | |
| 458 | |
| 22 | 459 > |
| 460 [No write since last change] | |
| 461 | |
| 462 This appears when executing a shell command while at least one buffer was | |
| 463 changed. To avoid the message reset the 'warn' option. | |
| 464 | |
| 7 | 465 *E38* > |
| 466 Null argument | |
| 467 | |
| 468 Something inside Vim went wrong and resulted in a NULL pointer. If you know | |
| 469 how to reproduce this problem, please report it. |bugs| | |
| 470 | |
| 471 *E41* *E82* *E83* *E342* > | |
| 472 Out of memory! | |
| 473 Out of memory! (allocating {number} bytes) | |
| 474 Cannot allocate any buffer, exiting... | |
| 475 Cannot allocate buffer, using other one... | |
| 476 | |
| 477 Oh, oh. You must have been doing something complicated, or some other program | |
| 478 is consuming your memory. Be careful! Vim is not completely prepared for an | |
| 479 out-of-memory situation. First make sure that any changes are saved. Then | |
| 480 try to solve the memory shortage. To stay on the safe side, exit Vim and | |
| 2415 | 481 start again. |
| 482 | |
| 17909 | 483 If this happens while Vim is still initializing, editing files is very |
| 18343 | 484 unlikely to work, therefore Vim will exit with value 123. |
| 17909 | 485 |
| 2415 | 486 Buffers are only partly kept in memory, thus editing a very large file is |
| 487 unlikely to cause an out-of-memory situation. Undo information is completely | |
| 488 in memory, you can reduce that with these options: | |
| 489 - 'undolevels' Set to a low value, or to -1 to disable undo completely. This | |
| 490 helps for a change that affects all lines. | |
| 491 - 'undoreload' Set to zero to disable. | |
| 492 | |
| 7 | 493 *E339* > |
| 494 Pattern too long | |
| 495 | |
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| 7 | 503 |
| 504 You are trying to write a file that was marked as read-only. To write the | |
| 505 file anyway, either reset the 'readonly' option, or add a '!' character just | |
| 506 after the command you used. Example: > | |
| 507 :w | |
| 508 changes to: > | |
| 509 :w! | |
| 510 < | |
| 511 *E294* *E295* *E301* > | |
| 512 Read error in swap file | |
| 513 Seek error in swap file read | |
| 514 Oops, lost the swap file!!! | |
| 515 | |
| 516 Vim tried to read text from the |swap-file|, but something went wrong. The | |
| 517 text in the related buffer may now be corrupted! Check carefully before you | |
| 518 write a buffer. You may want to write it in another file and check for | |
| 519 differences. | |
| 520 | |
| 521 *E192* > | |
| 522 Recursive use of :normal too deep | |
| 523 | |
| 524 You are using a ":normal" command, whose argument again uses a ":normal" | |
| 525 command in a recursive way. This is restricted to 'maxmapdepth' levels. This | |
| 526 example illustrates how to get this message: > | |
| 527 :map gq :normal gq<CR> | |
| 528 If you type "gq", it will execute this mapping, which will call "gq" again. | |
| 529 | |
| 530 *E22* > | |
| 531 Scripts nested too deep | |
| 532 | |
| 533 Scripts can be read with the "-s" command-line argument and with the ":source" | |
| 534 command. The script can then again read another script. This can continue | |
| 535 for about 14 levels. When more nesting is done, Vim assumes that there is a | |
| 536 recursive loop somewhere and stops with this error message. | |
| 537 | |
| 538 *E319* > | |
| 539 Sorry, the command is not available in this version | |
| 540 | |
| 541 You have used a command that is not present in the version of Vim you are | |
| 542 using. When compiling Vim, many different features can be enabled or | |
| 543 disabled. This depends on how big Vim has chosen to be and the operating | |
| 544 system. See |+feature-list| for when which feature is available. The | |
| 545 |:version| command shows which feature Vim was compiled with. | |
| 546 | |
| 547 *E300* > | |
| 548 Swap file already exists (symlink attack?) | |
| 549 | |
| 550 This message appears when Vim is trying to open a swap file and finds it | |
| 551 already exists or finds a symbolic link in its place. This shouldn't happen, | |
| 552 because Vim already checked that the file doesn't exist. Either someone else | |
| 553 opened the same file at exactly the same moment (very unlikely) or someone is | |
| 554 attempting a symlink attack (could happen when editing a file in /tmp or when | |
| 555 'directory' starts with "/tmp", which is a bad choice). | |
| 556 | |
| 557 *E432* > | |
| 558 Tags file not sorted: {file name} | |
| 559 | |
| 560 Vim (and Vi) expect tags files to be sorted in ASCII order. Binary searching | |
| 561 can then be used, which is a lot faster than a linear search. If your tags | |
| 562 files are not properly sorted, reset the |'tagbsearch'| option. | |
| 563 This message is only given when Vim detects a problem when searching for a | |
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| 7 | 565 properly sorted. |
| 566 | |
| 567 *E424* > | |
| 568 Too many different highlighting attributes in use | |
| 569 | |
| 570 Vim can only handle about 223 different kinds of highlighting. If you run | |
| 571 into this limit, you have used too many |:highlight| commands with different | |
| 572 arguments. A ":highlight link" is not counted. | |
| 573 | |
| 574 *E77* > | |
| 575 Too many file names | |
| 576 | |
| 577 When expanding file names, more than one match was found. Only one match is | |
| 578 allowed for the command that was used. | |
| 579 | |
| 580 *E303* > | |
| 581 Unable to open swap file for "{filename}", recovery impossible | |
| 582 | |
| 583 Vim was not able to create a swap file. You can still edit the file, but if | |
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| 7 | 585 memory when editing a big file. You may want to change the 'directory' option |
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| 7 | 588 |
| 589 *E140* > | |
| 590 Use ! to write partial buffer | |
| 591 | |
| 592 When using a range to write part of a buffer, it is unusual to overwrite the | |
| 593 original file. It is probably a mistake (e.g., when Visual mode was active | |
| 594 when using ":w"), therefore Vim requires using a ! after the command, e.g.: | |
| 595 ":3,10w!". | |
| 596 > | |
| 597 | |
| 598 Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>Escape,_Key_Cancel" to type | |
| 599 VirtualBinding | |
| 600 | |
| 601 Messages like this appear when starting up. This is not a Vim problem, your | |
| 602 X11 configuration is wrong. You can find a hint on how to solve this here: | |
| 603 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/12179. | |
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| 7 | 605 |
| 606 *W10* > | |
| 607 Warning: Changing a readonly file | |
| 608 | |
| 609 The file is read-only and you are making a change to it anyway. You can use | |
| 610 the |FileChangedRO| autocommand event to avoid this message (the autocommand | |
| 611 must reset the 'readonly' option). See 'modifiable' to completely disallow | |
| 612 making changes to a file. | |
| 548 | 613 This message is only given for the first change after 'readonly' has been set. |
| 7 | 614 |
| 615 *W13* > | |
| 616 Warning: File "{filename}" has been created after editing started | |
| 617 | |
| 618 You are editing a file in Vim when it didn't exist, but it does exist now. | |
| 619 You will have to decide if you want to keep the version in Vim or the newly | |
| 620 created file. This message is not given when 'buftype' is not empty. | |
| 621 | |
| 622 *W11* > | |
| 623 Warning: File "{filename}" has changed since editing started | |
| 624 | |
| 625 The file which you have started editing has got another timestamp and the | |
| 626 contents changed (more precisely: When reading the file again with the current | |
| 627 option settings and autocommands you would end up with different text). This | |
| 628 probably means that some other program changed the file. You will have to | |
| 629 find out what happened, and decide which version of the file you want to keep. | |
| 630 Set the 'autoread' option if you want to do this automatically. | |
| 631 This message is not given when 'buftype' is not empty. | |
| 632 | |
| 633 There is one situation where you get this message even though there is nothing | |
| 634 wrong: If you save a file in Windows on the day the daylight saving time | |
| 635 starts. It can be fixed in one of these ways: | |
| 636 - Add this line in your autoexec.bat: > | |
| 637 SET TZ=-1 | |
| 638 < Adjust the "-1" for your time zone. | |
| 639 - Disable "automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes". | |
| 640 - Just write the file again the next day. Or set your clock to the next day, | |
| 641 write the file twice and set the clock back. | |
| 642 | |
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| 7 | 646 *W12* > |
| 647 Warning: File "{filename}" has changed and the buffer was changed in Vim as well | |
| 648 | |
| 649 Like the above, and the buffer for the file was changed in this Vim as well. | |
| 650 You will have to decide if you want to keep the version in this Vim or the one | |
| 651 on disk. This message is not given when 'buftype' is not empty. | |
| 652 | |
| 653 *W16* > | |
| 654 Warning: Mode of file "{filename}" has changed since editing started | |
| 655 | |
| 656 When the timestamp for a buffer was changed and the contents are still the | |
| 657 same but the mode (permissions) have changed. This usually occurs when | |
| 658 checking out a file from a version control system, which causes the read-only | |
| 659 bit to be reset. It should be safe to reload the file. Set 'autoread' to | |
| 660 automatically reload the file. | |
| 661 | |
| 662 *E211* > | |
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| 7 | 664 |
| 665 The file which you have started editing has disappeared, or is no longer | |
| 666 accessible. Make sure you write the buffer somewhere to avoid losing | |
| 667 changes. This message is not given when 'buftype' is not empty. | |
| 668 | |
| 669 *W14* > | |
| 670 Warning: List of file names overflow | |
| 671 | |
| 672 You must be using an awful lot of buffers. It's now possible that two buffers | |
| 673 have the same number, which causes various problems. You might want to exit | |
| 674 Vim and restart it. | |
| 675 | |
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| 7 | 682 *E296* *E297* > |
| 683 Seek error in swap file write | |
| 684 Write error in swap file | |
| 685 | |
| 686 This mostly happens when the disk is full. Vim could not write text into the | |
| 687 |swap-file|. It's not directly harmful, but when Vim unexpectedly exits some | |
| 688 text may be lost without recovery being possible. Vim might run out of memory | |
| 689 when this problem persists. | |
| 690 | |
| 691 *connection-refused* > | |
| 692 Xlib: connection to "<machine-name:0.0" refused by server | |
| 693 | |
| 694 This happens when Vim tries to connect to the X server, but the X server does | |
| 695 not allow a connection. The connection to the X server is needed to be able | |
| 696 to restore the title and for the xterm clipboard support. Unfortunately this | |
| 697 error message cannot be avoided, except by disabling the |+xterm_clipboard| | |
| 698 and |+X11| features. | |
| 699 | |
| 700 *E10* > | |
| 701 \\ should be followed by /, ? or & | |
| 702 | |
| 703 A command line started with a backslash or the range of a command contained a | |
| 704 backslash in a wrong place. This is often caused by command-line continuation | |
| 705 being disabled. Remove the 'C' flag from the 'cpoptions' option to enable it. | |
| 20 | 706 Or use ":set nocp". |
| 7 | 707 |
| 708 *E471* > | |
| 709 Argument required | |
| 710 | |
| 711 This happens when an Ex command with mandatory argument(s) was executed, but | |
| 712 no argument has been specified. | |
| 713 | |
| 16267 | 714 *E474* *E475* *E983* > |
| 7 | 715 Invalid argument |
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| 16267 | 717 Duplicate argument: {arg} |
| 7 | 718 |
| 16267 | 719 An Ex command or function has been executed, but an invalid argument has been |
| 720 specified. | |
| 7 | 721 |
| 722 *E488* > | |
| 723 Trailing characters | |
| 724 | |
| 725 An argument has been added to an Ex command that does not permit one. | |
| 726 | |
| 727 *E477* *E478* > | |
| 728 No ! allowed | |
| 729 Don't panic! | |
| 730 | |
| 731 You have added a "!" after an Ex command that doesn't permit one. | |
| 732 | |
| 733 *E481* > | |
| 734 No range allowed | |
| 735 | |
| 736 A range was specified for an Ex command that doesn't permit one. See | |
| 737 |cmdline-ranges|. | |
| 738 | |
| 739 *E482* *E483* > | |
| 740 Can't create file {filename} | |
| 741 Can't get temp file name | |
| 742 | |
| 743 Vim cannot create a temporary file. | |
| 744 | |
| 745 *E484* *E485* > | |
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| 7 | 748 |
| 4186 | 749 Vim cannot read a temporary file. Especially on Windows, this can be caused |
| 750 by wrong escaping of special characters for cmd.exe; the approach was | |
| 751 changed with patch 7.3.443. Try using |shellescape()| for all shell arguments | |
| 752 given to |system()|, or explicitly add escaping with ^. Also see | |
| 753 'shellxquote' and 'shellxescape'. | |
| 7 | 754 |
| 755 *E464* > | |
| 756 Ambiguous use of user-defined command | |
| 757 | |
| 758 There are two user-defined commands with a common name prefix, and you used | |
| 759 Command-line completion to execute one of them. |user-cmd-ambiguous| | |
| 760 Example: > | |
| 761 :command MyCommand1 echo "one" | |
| 762 :command MyCommand2 echo "two" | |
| 763 :MyCommand | |
| 764 < | |
| 765 *E492* > | |
| 766 Not an editor command | |
| 767 | |
| 768 You tried to execute a command that is neither an Ex command nor | |
| 769 a user-defined command. | |
| 770 | |
| 11262 | 771 *E943* > |
| 772 Command table needs to be updated, run 'make cmdidxs' | |
| 773 | |
| 774 This can only happen when changing the source code, when adding a command in | |
| 775 src/ex_cmds.h. The lookup table then needs to be updated, by running: > | |
| 776 make cmdidxs | |
| 777 | |
| 7 | 778 ============================================================================== |
| 779 3. Messages *messages* | |
| 780 | |
| 781 This is an (incomplete) overview of various messages that Vim gives: | |
| 782 | |
| 446 | 783 *hit-enter* *press-enter* *hit-return* |
| 784 *press-return* *hit-enter-prompt* | |
| 7 | 785 |
| 446 | 786 Press ENTER or type command to continue |
| 7 | 787 |
| 788 This message is given when there is something on the screen for you to read, | |
| 789 and the screen is about to be redrawn: | |
| 790 - After executing an external command (e.g., ":!ls" and "="). | |
| 791 - Something is displayed on the status line that is longer than the width of | |
| 792 the window, or runs into the 'showcmd' or 'ruler' output. | |
| 793 | |
| 446 | 794 -> Press <Enter> or <Space> to redraw the screen and continue, without that |
| 795 key being used otherwise. | |
| 796 -> Press ':' or any other Normal mode command character to start that command. | |
| 698 | 797 -> Press 'k', <Up>, 'u', 'b' or 'g' to scroll back in the messages. This |
| 798 works the same way as at the |more-prompt|. Only works when 'compatible' | |
| 799 is off and 'more' is on. | |
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| 446 | 803 -> Press <C-Y> to copy (yank) a modeless selection to the clipboard register. |
| 7 | 804 -> Use a menu. The characters defined for Cmdline-mode are used. |
| 805 -> When 'mouse' contains the 'r' flag, clicking the left mouse button works | |
| 806 like pressing <Space>. This makes it impossible to select text though. | |
| 807 -> For the GUI clicking the left mouse button in the last line works like | |
| 808 pressing <Space>. | |
| 809 | |
| 447 | 810 If you accidentally hit <Enter> or <Space> and you want to see the displayed |
| 811 text then use |g<|. This only works when 'more' is set. | |
| 812 | |
| 7 | 813 To reduce the number of hit-enter prompts: |
| 814 - Set 'cmdheight' to 2 or higher. | |
| 815 - Add flags to 'shortmess'. | |
| 816 - Reset 'showcmd' and/or 'ruler'. | |
| 17909 | 817 - Make sure `:echo` text is shorter than or equal to |v:echospace| screen |
| 818 cells. | |
| 7 | 819 |
| 539 | 820 If your script causes the hit-enter prompt and you don't know why, you may |
| 821 find the |v:scrollstart| variable useful. | |
| 822 | |
| 7 | 823 Also see 'mouse'. The hit-enter message is highlighted with the |hl-Question| |
| 824 group. | |
| 825 | |
| 826 | |
| 827 *more-prompt* *pager* > | |
| 828 -- More -- | |
| 446 | 829 -- More -- SPACE/d/j: screen/page/line down, b/u/k: up, q: quit |
| 7 | 830 |
| 831 This message is given when the screen is filled with messages. It is only | |
| 832 given when the 'more' option is on. It is highlighted with the |hl-MoreMsg| | |
| 833 group. | |
| 834 | |
| 835 Type effect ~ | |
| 836 <CR> or <NL> or j or <Down> one more line | |
| 446 | 837 d down a page (half a screen) |
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| 447 | 839 G down all the way, until the hit-enter |
| 856 | 840 prompt |
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| 7 | 847 q, <Esc> or CTRL-C stop the listing |
| 848 : stop the listing and enter a | |
| 849 command-line | |
| 850 <C-Y> yank (copy) a modeless selection to | |
| 851 the clipboard ("* and "+ registers) | |
| 852 {menu-entry} what the menu is defined to in | |
| 853 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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858 (*) Clicking the left mouse button only works: |
| 7 | 859 - For the GUI: in the last line of the screen. |
| 860 - When 'r' is included in 'mouse' (but then selecting text won't work). | |
| 861 | |
| 862 | |
| 863 Note: The typed key is directly obtained from the terminal, it is not mapped | |
| 864 and typeahead is ignored. | |
| 865 | |
| 532 | 866 The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of previous command output. |
| 867 This is especially useful if you accidentally typed <Space> at the hit-enter | |
| 868 prompt. | |
| 869 | |
| 14421 | 870 vim:tw=78:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl: |