How can I suppress startup error E575?

Question

If I quit Neovim's containing terminal without exiting Vim first, then the next time I run Neovim I get the error:

E575: Error while reading ShaDa file: mark entry at position 2957 has
Press ENTER or type command to continue

I want to not see this error on startup.

To reproduce this error run nvim --cmd term exit the terminal while still in vim and then run nvim --cmd term again. This error is caused by not exiting vim before closing the terminal.

Answer 1

Check your init.vim. If there is any line concerning viminfo, temporarily remove/comment it, you can later discover the reason it messed up.

Then backup and remove ~/.local/share/nvim/shada folder. Then start up Neovim, the folder will be auto-generated with a file named main.shada. Hopefully, your error will be gone.

The error possibly surfaced because neovim deprecated vim's viminfo format. Instead neovim uses shada or shared data. But possibly your init.vim contains some reference to viminfo formatted code which it can't read.

Answer 2

if you are a linux user:

echo ':term' | nvim

will send the commands directly through the pipe. So there won't be any error.

I personally also put an alias into my .bashrc file too:

alias nvim='echo ":term" | nvim'

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Edit: If you still want to open files with nvim you might want to put something like this into your bashrc file (and remove the alias)

nvim() {
    if [[ $@ == "." ]]; then
        command echo ":terminal" | nvim
    else
        command nvim "$@"
    fi
}