On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:26:32PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:02:31AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:32:44PM +0200, Engelen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > <...> > > > > > 2) Anyway, my biggest problem is that every once in a while I get lots > > > of email messages telling me that on (date,time) root was editing the > > > Config file, Nvi saved it and I can recover it with 'ex -r'. Why? > > > > You were editing a file. You exited, killed the editor, it crashed, or > > your system crashed, without properly closing the editing session. Your > > changes still exist and may be recovered. > > > > 'vi -r' should recover the file and give you the option to restore or > > cancel restoration of your lost changes. > > > > This is a feature, not a bug. > > i've run into this too, and i found out about the -r option. > > but even with -r, the 'recoverable' sessions all show up in different > vi buffers... if you don't want to save what's in all those buffers, > how do you make them go away? even with ^Wc to close, vi says > "check other buffers" even if i've already ^Wc closed them...
I don't use nvi.
vim saves temp files under the local directory as a hidden ("dot") file,
IIRC. A few judicious 'ls -a's might turn up something interesting.
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