Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Jim Lambert proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>
> > I've noticed that mutt occasionally forgets to clean up tmp files.
> > It seems to be an intermittent problem and I was wondering if other
> > users had seen it.
>
> Check your editor settings - if its vim, it'll be something like
>
> > set nobackup " do not keep a backup file, use versions instead
I've noticed mutt files building up in /tmp too. I use vim for
the editor, and nobackup seems to be the default. In any case, I
have nobackup set, but I still get the files accumulating in /tmp
so I'm not sure what the story is about that.
-- Mr. Wade
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