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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!EU.net!sun4nl!oce.nl!not-for-mail!mool From: mool@oce.nl (Bram Moolenaar) Subject: Re: vi question X-Nntp-Posting-Host: esc-ws27 Message-ID: <E2D28M.LA9@oce.nl> Sender: news@oce.nl (The Daily News @ nntp01.oce.nl) Fcc: outbox Organization: Oce Nederland B.V. - Research & Development References: <57g04e$46b@newshost.lanl.gov> <57l3ob$hr0@uriah.heep.sax.de> <584eac$hp@rabbit.augusta.de> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 16:38:46 GMT Lines: 28 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32577 Somebody wrote: >> > Is there a way to turn off the back-up feature of vi? >> >> Are you sure vi is the culprit? >> >> 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 Maybe you are using Vim? Then you can switch off leaving backups around with this line in your .exrc of .vimrc: set nobackup Or, if you don't want backups even while writing the new file (this speeds up writing, but there is the risk of loosing the file when the machine goes down while writing; only use it when your file system is full): set nowritebackup Hope this helps! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Bram Moolenaar VIM home page: <URL:http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/> mool@oce.nl Interested in helping orphans in Uganda? Ask me for info!