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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: vi question
Date: 27 Nov 1996 23:53:27 -0000
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In article <57g04e$46b@newshost.lanl.gov>,
crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby) writes:
: Is there a way to turn off the back-up feature of vi?
:
: I'm running FreeBSD 3.1.5 from the Walnut Creek cd-rom.
:
: Is this a recent (e.g. from BSD 4.4 Lite) addition to vi? I've
: been using vi for a long time on several different BSD-based
: variants (BSD 4.[123], Ultrix, SunOS, ...) and have never run into
: this back-up thing before.
:
: While I concede that it can be somewhat handy at times, it is a bit
: disconcerting for one accustomed to vi, like Unix, leaving it up to
: the user to worry about such things. I'm undecided if I want to
: permanently turn it off so I guess I should also ask how to turn it
: back on if I decide I like it.
:
: Finding *.bak in my directory is just too reminiscent of VMS's
: versions although I must say, if it must be done, having only a
: single back-up file is to be preferred to accumulating dozens of
: them...
Wow ! How wierd. It's never done that on me - mind you, I've never
run version 3.1.5 :)
Seriously, the man page doesn't say anything except that it's triggered
by a SIGALRM...... but it doesn't seem to be the default (it doesn't
happen on my machins). Have a look in /etc/vi.exrc and ~/.*exrc and
see if there's anything funny there.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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