On 01/21/2013 07:24 AM, ping wrote: > vim backup file is great in 99% scenarios, but it's annoying to create > an un-wanted file in some system directories, especially in dirs that > contains configurations for apps. > how, can I disable the backup file creation, right when I launch vim to > read a file? > > I know another workaround is to just launch vim without any file, turn > off backup file creation, and then open the files...
I'm not aware of an option to turn backups off on a per file basis but I always set in my vimrc the directory to which the backups are saved: 'set backup set backupdir=~/.backup' Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
