Re: keep old files
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:52:35PM +0530, Joydeep Bakshi wrote:
> I have faced a strange prob. in woody. whenever I modified any file the
> previous contents is backedup with a *~* sign and the modified one is saved
> with the actual name.
Yes, that's the default behavior for vim. I imagine that it's also the
default for emacs and xemacs, but I'm not going to install them just to
find out.
> plz suggest me how to stop the generation of this second back-up file.
You mean first backup file, don't you?
In vim, see ':he backup'.
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