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From: crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: vi question
Date: 26 Nov 1996 23:57:02 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Message-ID: <57g04e$46b@newshost.lanl.gov>
Reply-To: crs@hamlet.lanl.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: hamlet.lanl.gov
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...
Thanks for any help.
--
Best,
Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby "I'm the NRA!"
crs@swcp.com crs@hamlet.lanl.gov Life Member since 1965