Is it possible to delete a directory? about ivim HOT 9 CLOSED

I think you need to empty the directory first before you can delete it via netrw.

Edited: you are right, netrw in iVim seems not able to delete directories even when they are empty.

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I have tried call delete('.vim/some/empty/dir'), and it fails returning -1.

Other file operations, fail, too, like moving files.

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I have tried call delete('.vim/some/empty/dir'), and it fails returning -1.

I think that function can only delete files, not directories. On the version of Vim on my computer, it has an extra flags argument that can be used for deleting directories, but the iVim version doesn't seem to include this flag.

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@sedm0784 which version were you talking about?

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@terrychou Not sure to what your question refers. The issue as reported exists in the current App Store version of iVim. I can add more details of the precise error messages if the issue is not as simple as I suggested and if you want to look into it.

The flags argument to delete() is present in Vim 7.4 with patches 1-2196. I'm not sure when it was introduced.

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I see that vim of version 8 has this flag available, so I guess it may not be possible to delete a directory via a vim function before.

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@terrychou Not sure if you misread my message. The new flag is present as of patch 2196 (i.e. before v8).

Regardless, since I opened this issue, you've enabled "File Sharing", and IIRC this means I should be able to delete the empty directory via iTunes, so I'm closing the issue.

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@sedm0784 No, I didn't misunderstand you. I know that you said it was a patched version for 7. By what I replied, I meant that I checked the version 8 and found that it had that available. Since it was added, it means that there wasn't alternative way to fulfill the function.

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For posterity's sake, I just looked it up, and it looks as though the flag parameter was added to delete() in 7.4.1107. (iVim is 7.4.900.)

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