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- From: hjiwa@gruc19.nor.chevron.com (Jeff Wang)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: vi temporary files
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.080030@gruc19.nor.chevron.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 14:00:30 GMT
- References: <1992Dec13.230411.16440@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu (Brian E. Saunders) writes:
- |> 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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- To redirect where vi will store its temporary buffer files, put in your .exrc,
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- set dir=home_dir
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- where "home_dir" is the path to the user's home directory.
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