With the trailing slash I get Error detected while processing function <SNR>10_NM_new_mail..<SNR>10_NM_cmd_compose..<SNR>10_NM_newComposeBuffer..<SNR>10_NM_newFileBuffer: line 3: E739: Cannot create directory: /home/ukleinek/.notmuch/compose/ when hitting 'm' to compose a new mail. strace shows: stat("/home/ukleinek/.notmuch/compose/", 0x7fffee314a10) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/ukleinek/.notmuch/compose/", 0x7fffee314e30) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/ukleinek/.notmuch/compose", 0x7fffee315270) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/ukleinek/.notmuch", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 mkdir("/home/ukleinek/.notmuch/compose", 0755) = 0 mkdir("/home/ukleinek/.notmuch/compose/", 0755) = -1 EEXIST (File exists) so it seems vim's mkdir() isn't able to handle a trailing slash. --- Hello, is that a bug in vim? (BTW, I'm using vim 2:7.2.445+hg~cb94c42c0e1a-1 from Debian squeeze) Best regards Uwe vim/plugin/notmuch.vim | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/vim/plugin/notmuch.vim b/vim/plugin/notmuch.vim index 768a011..181e626 100644 --- a/vim/plugin/notmuch.vim +++ b/vim/plugin/notmuch.vim @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ let s:notmuch_defaults = { \ \ 'g:notmuch_compose_insert_mode_start': 1 , \ 'g:notmuch_compose_header_help': 1 , - \ 'g:notmuch_compose_temp_file_dir': '~/.notmuch/compose/' , + \ 'g:notmuch_compose_temp_file_dir': '~/.notmuch/compose' , \ } " defaults for g:notmuch_initial_search_words -- 1.7.5.4