Re: vi recovery
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:46:01PM -0400, dman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:20:20AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> | I've been troubling you kind folks of late with my segfault problems
> | with vi. Since I don't try to do startlingly original things but
> | am capable of messing anything up, I find it hard to believe that I
> | would have found a previously undiscovered bug, and I think my
> | latest problem arose from a rash attempt to compile my own kernel.
> |
> | However, I'm now stuck with the problem (after reverting to the
> | kernel off a CD) that vi reminds me at every reboot that it has a
> | file that I can recover, but segfaults when I try to do so.
> |
> | Can someone tell me how I can get rid of this? I've tried removing
> | the nearly two thousand files that vi has put in /tmp but it
> | doesn't help.
>
> I don't know about *n*vi, but vim creates a file .<filename>.swp in
> the same directory as the file you are editing. That is the file to
> remove to get rid of the notices. Replace <filename> with the name of
> the file you were editing. Note that (again, with vim, I don't know
> about nvi) I you edit the file without removing the .swp file it
> creates a second swap file called .swo instead.
>
> HTH,
> -D
Thanks for the hint. I found the things in /var/tmp/vi/recover/
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