What are the permissions on /tmp?
drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 4096 2004-02-13 21:46 tmp
What permissions does your user have? What is actually in your vimrc around line 56?
&cat /etc/vim/vimrc " Configuration file for vim
" Prevent modelines in files from being evaluated (avoids a potential " security problem wherein a malicious user could write a hazardous " modeline into a file) (override default value of 5) set modelines=0
" Normally we use vim-extensions. If you want true vi-compatibility " remove change the following statements set nocompatible " Use Vim defaults instead of 100% vi compatibility set backspace=indent,eol,start " more powerful backspacing
" Now we set some defaults for the editor
set autoindent " always set autoindenting on
set textwidth=0 " Don't wrap words by default
set nobackup " Don't keep a backup file
set viminfo='20,\"50 " read/write a .viminfo file, don't store more than
" 50 lines of registers
set history=50 " keep 50 lines of command line history
set ruler " show the cursor position all the time" Suffixes that get lower priority when doing tab completion for filenames.
" These are files we are not likely to want to edit or read.
set suffixes=.bak,~,.swp,.o,.info,.aux,.log,.dvi,.bbl,.blg,.brf,.cb,.ind,.idx,.ilg,.inx,.out,.toc
" We know xterm-debian is a color terminal if &term =~ "xterm-debian" || &term =~ "xterm-xfree86" set t_Co=16 set t_Sf=[3%dm set t_Sb=[4%dm endif
" Make p in Visual mode replace the selected text with the "" register. vnoremap p <Esc>:let current_reg = @"<CR>gvdi<C-R>=current_reg<CR><Esc>
" Vim5 and later versions support syntax highlighting. Uncommenting the next
" line enables syntax highlighting by default.
" syntax on
if has("autocmd")
" Enabled file type detection
" Use the default filetype settings. If you also want to load indent files
" to automatically do language-dependent indenting add 'indent' as well.
filetype plugin onendif " has ("autocmd")
" Some Debian-specific things augroup filetype au BufRead reportbug.* set ft=mail au BufRead reportbug-* set ft=mail augroup END
" Set paper size from /etc/papersize if available (Debian-specific)
if filereadable('/etc/papersize')
let s:papersize = matchstr(system('/bin/cat /etc/papersize'), '\p*')
if strlen(s:papersize)
let &printoptions = "paper:" . s:papersize
endif
unlet! s:papersize
endif" The following are commented out as they cause vim to behave a lot
" different from regular vi. They are highly recommended though.
"set showcmd " Show (partial) command in status line.
"set showmatch " Show matching brackets.
"set ignorecase " Do case insensitive matching
"set incsearch " Incremental search
"set autowrite " Automatically save before commands like :next and :make
Cheers, Dave
thanks.
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