Side note, a "tmux" or "screen" session can helpful when network
connectivity is and issue.
On 2021-07-03 3:21 p.m., Chris Jones wrote:
On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 09:37:33AM EDT, [email protected] wrote:
The best way to avoid having those files laying around is to find
out why Vim is unable to rename them and fix that problem. Watch
for error messages when Vim closes.
Possibly a permissions problem? A look at the permissions and ownership of
the files and the containing directory might offer some clues.
According to the vim help (help wv):
When you get error "E929: Too many viminfo temp files"
check that no old temp files were left behind (e.g.
~/.viminf*) and that you can write in the directory of
the .viminfo file.
I would imagine I can write to my $HOME directory...?
As to ownership I was in the middle of some sticky issue and I deleted
the files as suggested by the E929: error message (instead of moving
them to some safe place or other) so I cannot verify that but I would
also imagine that I am/was the owner thereof.
I have a feeling this may have to do to with my having had a series of
lockups lately where the only option was ssh'ing to the box and issuing
'shutdown -r now' commands as the only way out. Tried to recreate the
situtation but haven't had any luck so far.
One possible work around would be to direct the files to /tmp (or
a subdirectory of /tmp) rather than my home directory where they would
be taken care of when the machine is restarted but I haven't found a way
to persuade vim do just that. Shouldn't /tmp/... be the place where temp
files are created?
Anyway, now I have at least a vague idea of what these files are for so
I'll stop worrying and live with it.
Thanks,
CJ
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