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Article #2512Re: vi temporary files
From: Brian E. Saunders
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:29
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:29
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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. -- Brian E. Saunders saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.editors Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!doug.cae.wisc.edu!luther.che.wisc.edu!saunders 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> Lines: 19