Re: Vim creating backups despite backup being disabled in rc

Am 2014-12-06 00:53, schrieb Manish Jain:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Vim version 7.4.430 on FreeBSD-10.1 (i386). The last line
> of .vimrc is :
>
> set nobackup
>
> Yet whenever I edit a file, Vim creates a backup file .<file>un~
>
> I had never seen this behaviour in Vim, and it is getting annoying as
> it is messing up my filesystem. I tried inserting the following line
> to stop the behaviour :

That is not a backup file but an undo file which you can read about at
:h undo-persistence
Which also links to the 'undofile' setting which lets you disable this.

Best,
Christian

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