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- From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
- Subject: Re: vi temporary files
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- References: <Bz92Hw.1Kp@sci.kun.nl> <1992Dec14.133348.7652@alw.nih.gov>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:36:06 GMT
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- In <1992Dec14.133348.7652@alw.nih.gov> weisen@alw.nih.gov (Neil Weisenfeld) writes:
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- >Or, move vi to vi.prog and write a shell script called vi that appends
- >this to the EXINIT.
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- Don't do that. If you set EXINIT, vi will ignore $HOME/.exrc.
- Users will notice, and put alias vi=vi.prog in their .chsrc files.
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- >Come to think of it, Vi might listen to the env.
- >variable TMPDIR, so you could try that, too.
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- Have you tried it? Does it work with your version of vi?
- Vi Version SVR3.1 doesn't listen to TMPDIR.
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- Hope this helps,
-
- Hans Mulder hansm@cs.kun.nl
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