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- From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
- Subject: Re: vi temporary files
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- References: <1992Dec13.230411.16440@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:53:55 GMT
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- In <1992Dec13.230411.16440@doug.cae.wisc.edu> saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu (Brian E. Saunders) writes:
- >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.
-
- Maybe you could ask the offending user to add the line
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- set directory=/their/home/directory
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- to the .exrc file in that directory.
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- --
- Hope this helps,
-
- Hans Mulder hansm@cs.kun.nl
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