On mac vi and error exits

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:22:17 +0000

Sometimes I have to use a Mac, and various things drive me nuts about it. The worst is git commit aborting because I typoed the writeout command after having written the best commit log ever. Here’s a google crumb for others experiencing this, and ideally for someone who wants to track down and fix the problem upstream.

Synopsis: do the below, and type the following once vim starts up: :Wq[enter]:q[enter]

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Thu, 01 May 2014 21:13:47 +0000

Or, how I read parts of the fine manual.

Yesterday, after spending way too much time trying to get find(1) to exclude vim swapfiles, I finally had it with them cluttering up my work directories. As is usually the case when vim triggers an itch, I thought, “there must be a setting for that,” and lo, there was.

set directory=~/.vimswap//

Make that directory and all the swap files go there instead. The trailing double slashes mean the swap files get named in such a way as to avoid conflicts.

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On mac vi and error exits

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