/tmp and /var/tmp

Posted Mar 30, 2011 21:18 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: /tmp and /var/tmp by nix
Parent article: Introducing /run

And for those who are wondering, you can set vim's 'directory' option to '/var/tmp' to get this behaviour back.

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/tmp and /var/tmp

Posted Apr 1, 2011 17:28 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Oo, thanks, hadn't noticed that. It doesn't record the pathname anywhere, though, so collisions are quite likely. (Emacs and XEmacs encode the pathname in the autosave filename.)

/tmp and /var/tmp

Posted Apr 1, 2011 19:13 UTC (Fri) by dtlin (subscriber, #36537) [Link]

:h dir
	- For Unix and Win32, if a directory ends in two path separators "//"
	  or "\\", the swap file name will be built from the complete path to
	  the file with all path separators substituted to percent '%' signs.
	  This will ensure file name uniqueness in the preserve directory.

(Same with 'bdir'.)