Comment #8 on issue 28 by [email protected]: out of the box, gVim 7.3.46 for
Win32 cannot write swap files on Windows 7
http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/detail?id=28
Starting Vim from the start menu (which admittedly I've never done in
15+years using it until just now) sets the current working directory to
C:\Windows\system32, which is not writeable to normal users, thus giving
the swap file error. It's not a common usage scenario, but the fix is
pretty simple.
The root issue is that neither C:\TMP and C:\Temp exist by default on
Windows and haven't for a long time, so the swap file fails in any folder
that the user can't write to. The default value of directory on Win32
should probably be ".,$TMP,$TEMP" (or maybe ".,C:\TMP,C:\Temp,$TMP,$TEMP"
for maximum backwards compatibility with older versions of Windows. I'm not
sure when exactly the change of temp dirs happened).
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