> > On May 1, 3:10 pm, Ritmo2k <jcas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > no backups are made in /tmp? How do you control this?
> >
> > The 'backupskip' option; the default value includes /tmp/*.
> >
> > Please excuse me if I'm wrong, but you seem unaware how good vim's
> > help is. Mucking around with the whatever option, it's a good idea to
> > try
> >
> > :help 'whatever
> >
> > (that's a single quote). :help 'backup tells about backupskip, and
> > hyper-links to it.
> >
> > Regards, John
>
> You're right, but my :set _does not_ indicate this value set, so
> when I looked through it to read up on the options, obviously I
> didn't see this & never looked into it. Reading :help backup
> suggests its activated by a pattern, but as its not defined in
> :set or :let and neither my /etc/ vimrc or /etc/virc or ~/.vimrc
> contain it, I am wondering how its getting set?
> Are there ways to compile defaults into vim? If so how does one
> display these build time options?
From within Vim,
:version
From the shell command line,
vim --version
":help backupskip" says,
{not available when compiled without the |+wildignore| feature}
Maybe one of your Vims was compiled without the +wildignore feature
and the other was compiled with it.
See also
:help :version
Regards,
Gary
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