It is not logical that on UNIX permissions can prevent even writing temporary
file, while on other OS it will first write temporary file and then fail during
rename.
It was the behaviour exhibited by Vim, but it got unintentionally removed. There
is a difference though: Vim runs fchown *before* populating the file, I run it
just before renaming.
This problem made test64 to crash. Description of the bug: when removing entry
from history when removed entry is not the last one it puts one element to
free_entries list, but ignores free entries starting from last_free_element.
Possible solutions:
1. First working: simply populate free_entries list with entries which are still
free, starting from last_free_element.
2. Better (wastes less CPU): after free_entries list size goes to zero (which is
the initial value) continue using last_free_element.
3. Even better (less memory): note that element from the list is *only* removed
before adding another one. So replace free_entries array with one item.
Also renamed last_free_element to last_free_entry: in any case most of the lines
which mention it were altered.
It appears that large portion of non-ShaDa ASCII text files may be parsed as
a ShaDa file because it is mostly recognized as a sequence of unknown entries:
all ASCII non-control characters are recognized as FIXUINT shada objects, so
text like
#!/bin/sh
powerline "$@" 2>&1 | tee -a powerline
(with trailing newline) will be recognized as a correct ShaDa file containing
single unknown entry with type 0x23 (dec 35, '#'), timestamp 0x21 (dec 33, '!')
and length 0x2F (dec 47, '/') without this commit. With it parsing this entry
will fail.
For compatibility the following things are done:
1. Items with type greater then greatest type are ignored when reading and
copied when writing.
2. Registers with unknown name are ignored when reading and blindly copied when
writing.
3. Registers with unknown type are ignored when reading and merged as usual when
writing.
4. Local and global marks with unknown names are ignored when reading. When
writing global marks are blindly copied and local marks are also blindly
copied, but only if file they are attached to fits in the `'N` limit defined
in &shada. Unknown local mark’s timestamp is also taken into account when
calculating which files exactly should fit into this limit.
5. History items with unknown type are ignored when reading and blindly copied
when writing.
6. Unknown keys found in register, local marks, global marks, changes, jumps and
search pattern entries are read to additional_data Dictionary and dumped (of
course, unless any of these elements were not overwritten later). It
obviously works only for values conversible to Object type.
7. Additional elements found in replacement string and history entries are read
to additional_elements Array and dumped (same: only if they were not
overwritten later). Again this works only for elements conversible to Object
type.
8. Additional elements found in variable entries are simply ignored when
reading. When writing *new* variables they will be preserved during merging,
but that’s all. Variable values dumped from current NeoVim session never have
additional elements.
