"cannot convert" when trying to save .vimrc after editing

[Eric Weir]

After editing my .vimrc trying to make text more readable I got an error message—“E213: Cannot convert (add ! to write without conversion)"—when I tried to save the changes.


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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
eew...@comcast.net

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[Yee Cheng Chin]

I saw in your other email that you have a setting to set fileencoding to "utf-10"? Why is that? Everything should really be utf-8, especially on the Mac, unless you have very specific reasons not to. The error you are seeing (type `:help E213` to find out more) is related to that.

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