On 2012-12-11, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2012-12-11, sinbad wrote:
>
> > there are two possibilities here, first one of vim
> > script is deleting the tmpfile, the other is some cron
> > job might be deleting it. in the first case can i put a
> > watch on the tmpfile created from with in vim. In the
> > latter case, can i force vim to create the tmp directory
> > in my homedir rather than in /tmp so that the cron job
> > won't have access to it. please suggest ways to achieve
> > above.
>
> Somebody suggested earlier a way to put a watch on that tmpfile, but
> you apparently don't have permission to do that.
>
> As for putting your tmp directory someplace else,
>
> :help tempfile
>
> says that on Unix, Vim uses the first of this list of directories:
> $TMPDIR, /tmp, current-dir, $HOME. Therefore, you could set TMPDIR
> in your environment before starting Vim, either by setting it in
> your shell's .rc file (e.g., ~/.bashrc) or by setting it as you
> start Vim, e.g.,
>
> TMPFILE=~/tmp vim
>
> You could put that in a wrapper script or in an alias:
>
> alias vim='TMPFILE=~/tmp vim'
An even easier way is to put a line like this towards the top of
your ~/.vimrc:
let $TMPDIR = $HOME."/tmp"
Regards,
Gary
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