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- From: saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu (Brian E. Saunders)
- Subject: vi temporary files
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Date: 13 Dec 92 23:04:10 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.230411.16440@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- Whenever you use vi, a temporary file gets created on the /tmp directory.
- If one has their disc partitioned in the manner that UNIX discs often get
- partitioned, the "/" partition, which includes /tmp, does not have a whole
- lot of space. One person editing a huge file (multiple megabytes) will
- fill the partition, and make it impossible to do other things that are
- necessary from time to time, i.e. mail, other vi sessions, etc...
-
- Is there a way to force vi to write the temporary files to the users home
- directory? I know emacs does this, and I probably will encourage people
- editing large files to use emacs if I can't find a solution to the vi temp
- files.
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- Brian E. Saunders saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu
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