Bug 46295
| Summary: | please add information to Nvi recovery email | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | rdm <rdm> |
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
Shouldn't this be a conf issue? -- Tom Rhodes At 3:07 PM -0500 12/16/02, Tom Rhodes wrote: >Shouldn't this be a conf issue? Sorry, I missed editing the "Category" field. OTOH, whether it belongs in "conf" depends on whether the template for the email is stored in a file or hard-coded into nvi (:-). Anyway, feel free to change the bug to a more appropriate category. -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection I'm not sure of the motivation here. All the user really needs to know is how to get their file back, which they've been told. Ceri -- I am the greataxe of the Dwarf Father! At 9:05 PM +0000 12/16/02, Ceri Davies wrote: >I'm not sure of the motivation here. All the user really needs to know >is how to get their file back, which they've been told. This presumes that the user actually wants to jump through the hoops of doing a "vi -r". In many cases, as when a file was merely being view'ed, the user may just want to get rid of the recovery file. By letting them know where these files are located, the message could make this easier. -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection State Changed From-To: open->closed Vi is actually conbributed software which falls outside our scope. Personally I am going with previous mentionings that the user should be informed about a possible file recovery, I dont think the location is relevant enough to mention. If this should be fixed, it should be done upstream. Closing the PR |
vi (nvi, really), sends out email when it discovers that a file was being edited during a disorderly machine shutdown: >On Sun Nov 24 13:08:39 2002, the user rdm was editing a file >named About_Us.htm on the machine cfcl.com, when it was >saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not all, of the >changes to this file using the -r option to vi: > > vi -r About_Us.htm It might be useful to add some text to this message, saying that /var/tmp/vi.recover is the default recovery file directory. (I know this is in the man page for vi, but an explicit note would also be useful.) Fix: Add some text to the email. How-To-Repeat: Edit a file. Have a power outage (:-).