Re: VIM

[Nick Moffitt <nick@zork.net>]

On 12 Jun 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:

> It is a very useful feature called backing up files ;-)
> 
> You can convince vim to not create these files by either editing
> /etc/vimrc (for all user) or ~/.vimrc (on a per-user basis) and add a
> "set nobackup" line or edit the existing "set backup" line.

	Is there any way to get vim to write numeric backups?  The GNU
indent program pays attention to an environment variable, and will make
backup files like foo.~1~ and foo.~2~ if it is set right.

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