Re: Nvi saved the file language.dat

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:36:43PM +0000, Vittorio wrote:
> As I've read in the net, I've configured the language for latex
> modifying language.dat file by hand decommenting Italian (I didn't use
> texconfig!).
> 
> Now, at each boot, I'm receiving a message like this:
> 
> Nvi recovery program [28/06/01 16:05 +0000]:
> > On Wed Jun 27 19:40:15 2001, the user root was editing a
> > file named /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
> > on the machine debian, when it was saved for recovery. You
> > can recover most, if not all, of the changes to this file
> > using the -r option to vi:
> > 
> > 	vi -r /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
> > 
> 
> And issuing the following command:
> 
> dada@debian:/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config$ vi -r language.dat
> 
> No files named language.dat, readable by you, to recover
> 
> What shall I do?

apt-get --purge remove nvi
apt-get install vim-rt vim
update-alternatives --config editor
update-alternatives --config vi

-- 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #43 from Guy Geens <ggeens@iname.com>   (2 matched vim config)
:
Wondering how to SELECT YOUR DEFAULT TEXT EDITOR?  You can set
your prefered editor with:
	update-alternatives --config editor
Also it helps to set your EDITOR environment variable:
	export EDITOR=`which vim`
=Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>

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