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/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
