Thus said Christian Weisgerber on Sat, 07 Dec 2013 18:52:25 +0000:

> Also, your editor may scatter  additional cleartext copies around, for
> instance vi's recovery files.

Assuming /home is  on an encrypted disk, that can  be partially remedied
by using something like the following in ~/.exrc:

set recdir=/home/<username>/tmp/vi.recover

Of course  that won't help  other editors---I leave  it to the  users of
those editors to do their homework.

Andy
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