Monday, July 5, 2021

Re: Prevent vim from polluting the file system with a bunch of temporary $HOME/.viminf[a-z] files

On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 07:10:40AM EDT, John Barbour wrote:

> Side note, a "tmux" or "screen" session can helpful when network
> connectivity is and issue.

I think that what may have caused the problem is that due to having had
to move all my stuff to a new box and restore from backups... which
meant compatibility issues with the new hardware (older kernels mostly)
I've had to live in unstable conditions for aabout a month with
lockups... etc. so that my vim sessions were brutally interrupted as
a matter of course. That may explain how so many of those .viminf[a-z]
files were left behind...

I haven't had any of those show up since. Not one.

But shouldn't vim alert the user to the presence of such files since
they appear to be a symptom that something is amiss?

Instead vim appears to silently/happily carry on creating new temp
files... without doing anything with the old ones until it runs out of
letters (options).

Doesn't sound right to me...

CJ

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