Bug 116521

Summary: [vim] E576: viminfo: Missing '>' in line:
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Thomas Covello <pmjcovello>
Component: vimAssignee: Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Thomas Covello 2004-02-22 15:48:13 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040217

Description of problem:
When closing vim the following error message appears:
E576: viminfo: Missing '>' in line: [nine times]
E136: viminfo: Too many errors, skipping rest of file

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vim-enhanced-6.2.253-2

How reproducible: Always
To Reproduce: Open and close the vim editor.
Additional info: I have not modified .vimrc

Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2005-01-25 13:26:40 UTC
It looks like your .viminfo got messed up. Plese rename it and try
again. Or simply remove it, it'll be created again after you've edited
the first file.