vim 7 gives error when editing /etc/hosts

Frank Fesevur ffes@users.sourceforge.net
Tue Jun 13 09:39:00 GMT 2006


Hi,

When I try to edit /etc/hosts with vim7, it gives this error:
   E303: Unable to open swap file for "hosts", recovery impossible

The file can be edited, but this never happened with 6.4

Regards,
Frank

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