2014-10-07 Today, I searched for the file I had written yesterday: It wasn't there. After a while, it occured to me that I might have forgot- ten to save it. Fortunately, vi can recover such files. And yes, there was a file /var/tmp/Ex*, dated from yesterday. Lucky me! When I tried to recover it (`vi -r' and `vi -r file'), I got the message: "/usr/local/libexec/exrecover" No such file or directory The path looked unusual, because I had installed ex-vi via the package system, hence I queried it: $ pkginfo -l ex-vi | grep exrecover usr/lib/ex-vi/exrecover Okay, this meant, that the wrong path must be compiled into the binary. In fact: $ strings ex | grep usr /usr/local/libexec/exrecover /usr/local/libexec/expreserve /usr/local/libexec/exrecover tags /usr/lib/tags The problem was, that `LIBEXECDIR=/usr/lib/ex-vi' was only given to the `make install' call but not to the `make' call to build the sources. Fixing that solved the problem and I could recover the text file. (btw: When I removed ex-vi from the system, before reinstalling it, I wasn't able to use `vi' to edit files anymore, *of course*. I could have used `ed', but I did use `vim' ... what a shame!) http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke