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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.

To redirect where vi will store its temporary buffer files, put in your .exrc,

set dir=home_dir

where "home_dir" is the path to the user's home directory.

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