Bug 116521 - [vim] E576: viminfo: Missing '>' in line:
Summary: [vim] E576: viminfo: Missing '>' in line:
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: vim
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Karsten Hopp
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-02-22 15:48 UTC by Thomas Covello
Modified: 2014-02-21 10:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-01-25 13:26:40 UTC
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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.
Comment 2 kenorb 2014-02-21 10:58:01 UTC 
See:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/59155/why-is-vi-apparently-broken-viminfo-error-e576-and-how-can-i-fix-it
for more solutions.
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