On 6/30/06, Dimitriy V. Masterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am having a strange issue with :w. Instead of just writing the whole
> > buffer to the current file, it also creates another copy of the file.
>
> Copy where ? Under which name ?

In the same directory, with the the same name, but a tilde added at
the end, like file.txt~.

This is called 'backup copy'.
Check out these options:

:he 'backup'
:he 'writebackup;
:he 'nobackup'
:he 'backupdir'
:he 'backupext'
:he 'backupskip'
:he 'backupcopy'

Yakocv

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