Re: usual VIM backup settings in linux

2016-10-31 0:43 GMT+03:00 Erhy <erhard.glueck.austria@gmail.com>:
> Hello!
> After many years I start again with Linux
> I'm not satisfied with my experiments.
> I feel good if files are saved before overwriting them with a new version.
>
> But I don't want to see backup files conspicuously
> in normal work with bash.
>
> With .dir_colors I can hide them, if I choose
> set backupext=.~
>
> But if I edit bash scripts
> the execute mode bits are also set in the backup scripts.
> So these stick out again.
>
> Please tell me the usual way to handle it

Do you *need* those backup files? I have configured Vim to save
backups in ~/.vimbackup, but cannot remember last time I actually used
this feature: normally I have other options (persistent undo, VCS,
regular backups done by rsnapshot: depending on what I actually need).

>
> Erhy
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