eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) (10/19/89)
If I'm editing a buffer and for some reason (say, my modem flakes out) I have to switch terminals, is there some way to get a hold of the buffer from another shell? Related question is, if I kill the edit job how do I ensure an autosave? What's going on when vi autosaves when the machine crashes? Eager to have these mysteries resolved, I am faithfully yours.
maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (10/20/89)
eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) writes:
\... if I kill the edit job how do I
\ensure an autosave? What's going on when vi autosaves when the machine
\crashes?
kill -HUP or -TERM will make vi preserve the buffer.
From inside vi the `:pre' command will.
When the system has crashed and is rebooted, /usr/lib/ex*preserve is
run from /etc/rc to save ex/vi temporaries in /tmp, after which /tmp
normally is cleared.
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