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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: remote access to edit buffer
Message-ID: <3754@pinas.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 19 Oct 89 19:23:58 GMT
References: <10919@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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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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