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How to prevent a VIM file from becoming read-only when edited via a Windows symbolic link?
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I've set nobackup and nowritebackup per this question - VIM destroys symbolic links under Windows However, whenever I modify the file via the link, the target file is set to read-only. How can I prevent the link target from becoming read-only?
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This seems like a bug in VIM incorrectly interpreting file-attributes on Windows. The bug is described in 'backupcopy' and Windows Vista symbolic links, where a patch was developed to solve the problem. I believe you will just have to wait until tha…
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