[ILUG] Weird vim behaviour

[Gareth Eason]

    Hi,

    yes - inded I am - which is what the thread started with.

    I kinda missed that Ruari (for no sane reason except a BTW) changed 
the file in question from the swapfile to the backup file, but 
incorrectly stated that this was the file to which the thread referred ;-)

    After that I think everyone got confused (well... I did) as half 
were talking about the swapfile, the original thrust of this thread, and 
some people moved on to discussing the backup file feature.

    Never mind ;-)

    Regards,
    -->Gar

bobb wrote:

>Gareth Eason hath declared on Friday the 13 day of August 2004  :-:
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>>   Erm... the main purpose of the 'backup' file in (g)vi(m) (which is 
>>actually not a backup file at all but a sync'ed to disk working copy) is 
>>that if a connection is lost to a remote server before you've saved your 
>>changes, they're not lost. Just log in again, recover the 'backup' file 
>>- write out your changes and hopefully some/all of them will be there. 
>>It's saved me hours of time over flaky modem connections - especially of 
>>the GSM modem on a train stylee.
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>You are thinking of the swapfile, or perhaps writebackup (which doesn't
>seem to work for me...) 
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>I'm talking about backup, as in the config option.
>With it turned on when you finish editing ``file.txt'', a copy
>of the prefious version of the file will be kept, permanently in
>``backupdir'' as ``file.txt~'' by default...
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>- bobb
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