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:preserve does not seem to work with macOS/homebrew v7.4.26 using the default /var/tmp/vi.recover location.
Low priority.
Works normally on GNU/Linux (compiled).
Simple missing directory:
$ ovi -r
Error: recdir: /var/tmp/vi.recover: No such file or directory
~
:pre
Preservation of this file not possible
:set recdir?
recdir="/var/tmp/vi.recover"
$ ls -la /var/tmp/vi*
ls: /var/tmp/vi*: No such file or directory
/var/tmpdoes exist so maybe add mkdir -p /var/tmp/vi.recover to the build process somehow?
Appears to work like I'd expect once I do that manually.
mkdir -p /home/kajukenbo/vi.recover and set recdir="/home/kajukenbo/vi.recover" also seems to work.
Thanks as always for keeping vi alive.
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A quick search shows that /private/var/tmp/ is probably the correct location for macOS. The /tmp is a symlink to /private/tmp and it looks like/var/tmp is a hard link to /private/var/tmp but I have double check to be sure.
Ideally, the preserve directory should be something that doesn't get deleted too often, and isn't in a private namespace, so you can run the recover script on unclean reboot. However, (since nobody really runs it anymore), if we do use a private namespace, I can just have OpenVi itself make the subdirectory if it's missing.
So, let me think a bit more about how to best handle it, but a fix should be easy enough and will come soon.
johnsonjh
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Low priority ~ :pre not working on macOS, missing /var/tmp/vi.recover
:pre not working on macOS, missing /var/tmp/vi.recover
Nov 22, 2023
Just a heads-up, this now (?) seems to occur with Linux builds on compiled OpenVi 7.4.27.
I just compiled it on a new install to make sure it was not my imagination.
Maybe it worked before since I was using nvi and it automatically made /var/tmp/vi.recover beforehand?
Version 7.4.27 (OpenVi) 09/07/2023.
:set recdir?
recdir="/var/tmp/vi.recover"
:pre
Preservation of this file not possible.
I'm not really sure if there is an equivalent to this directory on macOS that exists by default in the current versions, that is, something that is a shared amongst users and doesn't get cleaned up automatically too often, or on reboots.
There does seem to be a /private/var/tmp directory, which I think doesn't get cleaned out on reboot. It's only for the current user, but I think that's OK.
I'll look into it, but on macOS, I think using /private/var/tmp as _PATH_PRESERVE for recdir could work.
In the meantime, you can try adding set recdir="/private/var/tmp" to your .(n)exrc file and seeing if that works the way you want.
:preserve
does not seem to work with macOS/homebrew v7.4.26 using the default/var/tmp/vi.recover
location.Low priority.
Works normally on GNU/Linux (compiled).
Simple missing directory:
/var/tmp
does exist so maybe addmkdir -p /var/tmp/vi.recover
to the build process somehow?Appears to work like I'd expect once I do that manually.
mkdir -p /home/kajukenbo/vi.recover
andset recdir="/home/kajukenbo/vi.recover"
also seems to work.Thanks as always for keeping
vi
alive.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: