Subject: Re: best way to speed up "vi"
To: Henry Nelson <henry@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/04/2001 04:22:13
Henry Nelson <henry@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp> writes:
>There seems to be something strange going on, though. There are two
>recover files in there, but "vi -r" doesn't respond that way:
>% ls -l /var/tmp/vi.recover
>total 91
>-rwx------ 1 henchan wheel 81920 Nov 15 10:49 vi.00118a
>-rwx------ 1 root wheel 11264 Dec 6 18:25 vi.00878a
>% vi -r
>vi: no files to recover.
no, you have to specify the original filename of the file that you were
editing, like:
$ pwd
/foo/bar
$ vi story.txt
...system or vi crashes...
$ cd /foo/bar
$ vi -r story.txt (don't forget to save)
mkb