bug 58002

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Sat Sep 9 00:14:46 BST 2006


On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:45:12PM -0400, Michael R Head wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:01 -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> > It's not a bug in vim, but that doesn't mean we can't improve vim by
> > having it politely check the real vs effective user ids, and compare the
> > current value of HOME with expected values for the effective user vs the
> > real user, and issue a warning if they don't match. Just because it's
> > "not vim's responsibility", doesn't mean that therefore "vim shouldn't
> > do anything about it".
> 
> FWIW, I get a similar problem with nano's .nano_history file...

Please mention this in the bug report for reference, in the event that we
decide that patching nano would be a good idea.

-- 
 - mdz



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