Eric Leenman wrote:
I've tried it but then I get the message :
Error E510 'Can't backup file (add! to override)
I have a clean gvim70.exe downloaded today.
I've added two lines to my _vimrc, see below for the complete file.
Do I need to do something with backup and write backup?
[start _vimrc]
set nocompatible
source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim
behave mswin
" Disclaimer: the following is untested
" -------------------------------------
if ! isdirectory($VIM . '/backup')
silent! !mkdir $VIM/backup
if ! isdirectory($VIM . '/backup')
echoerr "Backup directory does not exist"
\ "and cannot be created"
endif
endif
set bdir=$VIM/backup
let &bex = '-' . strftime("%Y%b%d%X") . '~'
[end _vimrc]
'backupext' is here set to the date-time when the vimrc was sourced. If a file
is edited and saved several times in a single session, all backups will (IIUC)
overwrite one another.
For now I've used gvim63.exe
There I used tip 892 (http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=892)
But this doesn't work anymore in 6.4 and 7.0
I'm trying to get this backup options functional in 7.0 again, but until
now unsuccesfull.
Best regards,
Tony.
