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Operating Systems AIX Locking a file when using VI to prevent multiple-edit sessions by diff users Post 302096450 by cbkihong on Wednesday 15th of November 2006 08:26:23 PM
Old 11-15-2006
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Originally Posted by Jeeves
vim (an excellent vi clone) creates a swap file when you open a file. A side-effect is that if someone else opens the file in vim it sees that there already is a swap file. It then tells the user that the file is already opened by someone else (and which user that is) and asks if you maybe want to open it read-only. Maybe switching to vim is an option?
Without revision control, vim is probably okay, but note that you can still forcefully edit the file despite its warning (probably opened by another party). And, what if the other party is opening the file with emacs? joe? or just simply the filesystem is samba mounted and the file opened with Notepad on a Windows machine? The swap file serves no purpose then. Can you control the exact editor the staff is using? It depends on whether the company is willing to bear this risk. For most companies, especially for production servers, this is most probably no.

Therefore, any editor-specific feature is unlikely to be safe by most corporate standards, if there is any.
 

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EVIM(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   EVIM(1)

NAME
evim - easy Vim, edit a file with Vim and setup for modeless editing SYNOPSIS
evim [options] [file ..] eview DESCRIPTION
eVim starts Vim and sets options to make it behave like a modeless editor. This is still Vim but used as a point-and-click editor. This feels a lot like using Notepad on MS-Windows. eVim will always run in the GUI, to enable the use of menus and toolbar. Only to be used for people who really can't work with Vim in the normal way. Editing will be much less efficient. eview is the same, but starts in read-only mode. It works just like evim -R. See vim(1) for details about Vim, options, etc. The 'insertmode' option is set to be able to type text directly. Mappings are setup to make Copy and Paste work with the MS-Windows keys. CTRL-X cuts text, CTRL-C copies text and CTRL-V pastes text. Use CTRL-Q to obtain the original meaning of CTRL-V. OPTIONS
See vim(1). FILES
/usr/share/vim/vim72/evim.vim The script loaded to initialize eVim. AKA
Also Known As "Vim for gumbies". When using evim you are expected to take a handkerchief, make a knot in each corner and wear it on your head. SEE ALSO
vim(1) AUTHOR
Most of Vim was made by Bram Moolenaar, with a lot of help from others. See the Help/Credits menu. 2002 February 16 EVIM(1)
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