On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 7:36 AM Sihera Andre <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Tony,
>
>
> On 25/10/2019 13:55, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 6:31 AM Sihera Andre <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >> On 25/10/2019 13:06, Andre Sihera wrote:
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> The "backupcopy" option does not appear to be working as
> >>> documented in the version of VIM I have built locally. As the
> >>> run-time contains online help for the feature I assume that
> >>> my version of VIM supports it, or does it?
> >>>
> >>> Binary: 8.0.1766
> >>> Runtime: 8.0.1766
> >>> (full information at bottom)
> >> I have just tried my original tests against the HEAD version
> >> (v8.1.2168) and there is no difference. In fact, the per-file
> >> jump list doesn't seem to work at all in the HEAD version
> >> whereas it seems to work intermittently in 8.0.1766.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Andre.
> > The online help covers all versions of Vim, including those (if any)
> > ,which features that you excluded at compile-time.
> >
> > To see if the 'backupcopy' option is included, type (in Vim and in Normal
> > mode)
> >
> > :echo exists('+backupcopy')
> >
> > followed by Enter. The answer is normally 0 or 1. 0 means No, anything
> > else (normally 1) means Yes.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Tony.
> >
>
>
> Thanks for your comprehensive and helpful notes on building and
> configuring ViM.
>
> Regarding the "backupcopy" option, can you please tell me exactly
> what option that is I should be enabling on the "configure" command
> line? I have searched the entire source code, including all labels in
> src/feature.h and there is no label resembling "backupcopy". There
> is a "+/iwritebackup" option, there is the "backupskip" command,
> enabled as part of the "+/-wildignore" feature, but I don't see a
> "backupcopy" feature.
>
> Additionally, I have configured for "huge" builds and there is no
> "backupoption" in the outputof ":version", either as a "+" or a "-"
> (which would indicate it is inthe source code but has been disabled).
>
> For your reference, I attach the output of ":version" for my build as
> sent out in my original email.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andre.
What is the output of
:echo exists('+backupcopy')
? If it is 1, you already got it. In that case, «:help 'backupcopy'»
(with the single quotes but without the French ones) will tell you how
to use it, e.g. by settiing it to one of its possible values in your
vimrc.
Best regards,
Tony.
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