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From: shanee@rabbit.augusta.de (Andreas Kohout)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: vi question
Date: 4 Dec 1996 18:01:48 GMT
Organization: Privat Site running FreeBSD
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In article <57l3ob$hr0@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
> > Is there a way to turn off the back-up feature of vi?
>
> Are you sure vi is the culprit?
>
> j@uriah 644% find /usr/src/contrib/nvi -type f | xargs fgrep .bak
> j@uriah 645%
>
> ....nothing found.
>
> The only editor i know of that uses .bak is uemacs. But of course, i
> don't know many editors either.
there is also most Motif editors, like nedit, asedit, asWedit ...
maybe xcoral and several X-based editors too
--
Greeting, Andy
running FreeBSD-current
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