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- From: saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu (Brian E. Saunders)
- Subject: Re: vi temporary files
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Date: 14 Dec 92 13:29:07 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.132908.13152@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- References: <1992Dec13.230411.16440@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <Bz92Hw.1Kp@sci.kun.nl>
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- In article <Bz92Hw.1Kp@sci.kun.nl> hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
- >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
- >
- > set directory=/their/home/directory
- >
- >to the .exrc file in that directory.
-
- I did just that, and it works great. What a simple solution; had I paid
- more attention to the variables in vi, I probably could have figured this
- out, but this was so much easier. Thanks a lot.
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- Brian E. Saunders saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu
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