NeoVIM register resetting upon start

Micke Lisinge — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:23:13 +0000

I've had this super annoying issue in NeoVIM where my registers always gets reset to gibberish when i start NeoVIM. This will in turn fill my MacOS clipboard with the same gibberish.

This was especially annoying when switching to a newly opened NeoVIM instance aftere copying something i needed in said NeoVIM instance.

I did a bunch of Googling to see if i could find someone else with the same issue to no avail.

When trying to fix another issue i had with my NeoVIM i managed to fix this issue at the same time! Hooray!

TLDR;

If your NeoVIM always has the same registers when starting up you have a issue with your ShaDa temp files. It's easily fixed by removing the ShaDa directory rm -rf ~/.local/share/nvim/shada

E138: All ~/.local/share/nvim/shada/main.shada.tmp.X files exists, cannot write ShaDa file!

Micke Lisinge — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:17:00 +0000

I've had this annoying error message flashing by when quitting neovim for a while now:

The only reference to it i found while googling was this github issue. I ended up just rm -rf ~/.local/share/nvim/shada and it fixed this issue and another annoying issue I've had for a while.

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NeoVIM register resetting upon start

TLDR;

E138: All ~/.local/share/nvim/shada/main.shada.tmp.X files exists, cannot write ShaDa file!