On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 06:00:52PM -0500, Boyuan Yang wrote: > According to FHS and Linux common practice [1][2], /var/tmp/ should be > world-writable in a sane environment. Yeah, well, too bad systems go insane sometimes, hey. > You are welcome to provide a patch to Debian or > forward the patch to upstream. At a glance, the expectation of always having somewhere to put the database appears baked in pretty hard, and making it a "don't worry about it" issue seems more trouble than it's worth; with some ahead-of-time config manipulation it's possible to put set recdir=/tmp in /etc/vi.exrc, which does work around this. Nevertheless, without it, because exrc is off by default, it's impossible for non-root to have a functioning vi with a ro rootfs, sans setting HOME somewhere writable, and abusing that in lieu of a directory startup file, but the ergonomics of that are, well. Best, наб
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