Tom Purl wrote:
> I believe that this may be a bug. I hope that this is the proper way of
> opening a new one.
>
> I've poured over the documentation and asked the mailing list gods for
> help, and this basic feature still does not work. Here's the use case:
>
> I have tried this on both Windows and Linux. I'm certain that my
> `vimrc` is being read.
>
> Here's what I have in my `vimrc` file:
>
> set backup
> set backupskip="$HOME/gtd/wiki/*" # tried both with and without
> # quotes
>
> And here's how you too can recreate the bug:
>
> 1. I opened my $HOME/gtd/wiki directory within Vim using netrw.
> 2. I deleted the FrontPage~ doc using netrw
> 3. I then opened my FrontPage doc, edited it and saved it.
> 4. I then opened my $HOME/gtd/wiki directory again within Vim using netrw.
>
> Unfortunately, the FrontPage~ doc was created again. I have the potwiki
> plugin installed, but I also tested this without any extra plugins and got
> the same result.
Environment variables are not expanded for the 'backupskip' option. You
must replace $HOME with its expanded value, or use:
:let &backupskip = expand("$HOME") . "/gtd/wiki/*"
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