I use the potwiki plugin (which is pretty sweet by the way) to keep a plain-text wiki on my desktop that I can edit using Vim. All of my documents are stored under my `$HOME/gtd/wiki` directory.
Occasionally, I need to do a "full-text" search of my wiki pages, which I do using the `vimgrep` command. I use the following basic syntax: :vimgrep /searchterm/ $HOME/gtd/wiki/* This works pretty well, except for the fact that it always returns two "matches" for each search: one from the "real" doc (for example, FrontPage), and one from the backup of that doc (FrontPage~). I would like to force Vim to not make backups of files in my wiki folder, but still create backups for all of my other docs. I therefore tried the following command in my _vimrc: set backupskip=$HOME/gtd/wiki/* This, however, didn't work. I also tried quoting the path, using a relative path, etc. I read the autocmd-patterns help, and followed it's recommendations, but that still didn't work. Does anyone know what I'm missing here? Is my path incorrect, or am I using the wrong option to achieve my goal? Thanks in advance! Tom Purl