I have already checked several similar links but nothing worked. Before i explain the issue, i was earlier getting following message while saving any file:
vim e509 Cannot create backup file (add ! to override) While searching for solution, i came across several links which suggested creating .vimrc file. So i created one and entered the following contents in it:
set backup set backupdir=~/.vim/backups I also created the ~/.vim/backups directory. Also, there is no .viminfo file. I think i removed it while trying to fix things.
Few other details that might be of interest are:
-sh-4.2$ id uid=497(git) gid=496(git) groups=496(git) -sh-4.2$ ls -ld .vim* drwxr-xr-x 3 git git 4096 Dec 28 21:59 .vim -rw-r--r-- 1 git git 40 Dec 28 22:09 .vimrc -sh-4.2$ ls -l .vim/ drwxr-xr-x 2 git git 4096 Dec 28 22:11 backups -sh-4.2$ pwd /var/opt/gitlab -sh-4.2$ ls -ld /var/ drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Dec 20 22:31 /var/ -sh-4.2$ ls -ld /var/opt/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 21 21:01 /var/opt/ -sh-4.2$ ls -ld /var/opt/gitlab/ drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Dec 28 22:08 /var/opt/gitlab/ Now with the above permissions in place (no write for any user in any of the parent dirs), whenever i switch to git user and try saving any file, i am now getting the following error:
E138: Can't write viminfo file /var/opt/gitlab/.viminfo! Press ENTER or type command to continue Is the above error expected or am i doing something wrong? GitLab application creates git user as part of the install process so i am not sure whether changing the permissions will be a good idea.
System Info: [root@gitlab gitlab]# cat /etc/*release NAME="Amazon Linux AMI" VERSION="2015.09" ID_LIKE="rhel fedora" 2 Answers
It looks like you need to set the location of your viminfo file as well, with something like:
set viminfo+=n~/.vim/viminfo See :help viminfo and :help 21.3 for more information.
For me the problem was that ~/.vim/files/info/viminfo was a directory instead of a file.
