[plug] vi backing up files

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Richard 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?

Add:
set nowritebackup
set nobackup

to ~/.exrc


Yours Tony.

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