[plug] vi backing up files

[Arie Hol]

At 03:29 PM 11-05-2002 +0800, you wrote:
>Just a short question about the irritating tendency vi seems to have of 
>creating a backup of every file it edits. I use :wq to save and quit after 
>editing, only to find a copy of the original file with a tilde character 
>appended to it's name in the same dir. Is there a way to stop vi doing this?
>


Try using :
        
        vi -n <filename>

or read the help man page on vi :

        man vi (see options)
Regards Arie.

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