Possibly a dumb question, but googling doesn't seem to show up an answer. How do I get vim to do copy-on-write of files?
I'm doing some rudimentary source management with cp -al foo foo-hck and expecting that when I edit foo-hck/bar.pm that it'll do what emacs does, write a new file called bar.pm in foo-hck, but instead it doesn't disturb the hardlink at all and so modifies the pristine version of the file too. Yes I know the simplest answer is to use emacs because it's sane, but I'm trying to not disturb any of the tabbing going on in the original so I can produce the smallest possible patch (diff -b would still make my amended lines have distorted layout) I've already hacked the code, now I'm crafting a patch. -- Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
