[ILUG] Weird vim behaviour

[bobb]

Ruairi Newman hath declared on Friday the 13 day of August 2004  :-:

> >  Thanks, guys, that's it. On Solaris, vi creates temp files under /var/tmp.

> You probably know this already, but for those who don't, it's possible
> to change the location of the directory used by vim for these backup
> files.

The location of the temp swapfiles is actually controlled by the
``directory'' setting, I generally have:

    set directory=~/tmp,.

put it in ~/tmp or if not, put it in the same directory as the file.

> Just add 'set backupdir=<directory name>' to your .vimrc (making sure
> you have write access to the directory you specify!).
 
Just to clarify for others, a backup is a copy of the last version
of the file, handy for accidents :)  Although you should be using
rcs or summat anyhoo...

- bobb

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