[ILUG] Weird vim behaviour

[Lars Hecking]

Kenn Humborg writes:
[...] 
> Does vi (or most likely vim in this case) create and then delete
> any temporary file in the same directory?

Ivan Kelly writes:
> when you open a file with vim it creates a swap file so for file foo.txt the
> file .foo.txt.swp would be created. this is whats modifying the directory as
> it'll be created in the same directory as the file.

 Thanks, guys, that's it. On Solaris, vi creates temp files under /var/tmp.