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gVIM breaks symlinks on windows?

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Mar 15, 20261215 views
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Problem

I'm trying to keep my gVIM config in centralized place. For this, i have done That works fine until i change $MYVIMRC inside VIM. This instantly breaks symlink (c:\users\me.vimrc stop being a symlink and became ordinary file). Is it any way to fix this trange behavior? OS is Windows Vista with late…

Error Output

mklink c:\users\me\.vimrc c:\users\me\configs\_vimrc

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Vim is supposed to handle this correctly by default. (:help backupcopy) By default, on non-unix platforms, backupcopy is set to "auto". It will normally rename the file and write a new changed file when you save, but should modify the original file …

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