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
