[plug] Extreme text editing

J Michael Gilks mike at gilks1.com
Wed Oct 8 16:55:45 WST 2003


>
> Any particular reason you couldn't log in remotely and edit the file
> locally? Unless it's a really old HDD, it should be able to read the file a
> lot faster reading directly from the HDD.
>
The /tmp partition on the host machine is very small, so VI couldn't create 
the swap file locally. Backup system has been dead for 2 months, scary eh!, 
so did not want to test it by turning off the swap file and maybe lose the 
original.

Love
Mike.
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