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Did anyone else notice that vim has been making backups of all edited files since the recent update - on the contrary to previous behavior? Was this change intentional? Or what happened there? I actually don't want my system being spammed with multitudes of *~-files all over the place.
Setting nobackup option in .vimrc didn't help either, backups are still being written. I'd much rather have that setting back as default anyways. If I can get that back by re-compiling vi myself I'd be fine with that, just if anyone could tell me what option to set there. Thanks in advance.
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Open vim and run the following:
:set backup?
#expected output: "nobackup"
:set writebackup?
#expected output "nowritebackup"
If the output of these are "backup" or "writebackup", your vimrc isn't being sourced right.
What package are you using? Be aware that the vi package uses ~/.virc instead of vimrc.
How are you turning backups off? It should be "set nobackup"
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Thanks, phrak, it worked using .virc. I hadn't tried that. Both man and help from within vi told me to use .vimrc instead. That's what I had tried. Still what I don't understand that I had not needed a .virc at all before the last update to the "vi" package.
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I also noticed that vim now makes backups by default.
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I think what Aaron was saying is that "vi" uses ~/.virc and that "vim" uses ~/.vimrc.
thayer williams ~ cinderwick.ca
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