This is an error message I ran into after upgrading vim from 7.0 to 7.1, after editing a crontab file:
crontab: temp file must be edited in place
What was weird is this error message went away if I deleted my ~/.vimrc file. If ~/.vimrc was blank, the error message was still there, so it wasn’t caused by any command in particular.
It turned out to have something to do with vim’s backup strategy. I am supposing there is a default vimrc file somewhere that gets loaded if ~/.vimrc doesn’t exist.
After some googling, I fixed it by adding the following to my ~/.vimrc file:
set backupskip=/tmp/*,/private/tmp/*"
VIM already defaulted this value to ”/tmp/”. I don’t know why defining my own .vimrc made vim not recognize /private/tmp/ as a temp directory any more, but I don’t care enough to find out right now.
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Awsome. Worked like a charm on my Leopard Server.
Works great, thanks. I removed the double quote at the end of the backupskip line.
Thanks a lot. Definitely would have wasted a lot of time without your blog.
WFM,thank you
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Is that trailing unmatched quote char deliberate? I don't understand the syntax there.
Yes, Tartley, it was deliberate, and it works as is, although it also seems to work without it.
@Tartley, @Tim: The quote character is a comment in vim syntax, it makes no difference.
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