Re: Backup Directory

Putting it in quotes, causes vim to fire an error; although nothing is being written ?

On Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 4:51:37 PM UTC-4 Christian Brabandt wrote:

On So, 08 Mär 2026, Christopher wrote:

> "set backupdir=/etc/.backup

And you have the double quote at the beginning? That is actually a
comment character. And you most likely do not want your backups to go
into /etc, unless that directory is specifically being set to allow you
to write into it. And finally, please I guess you also want :set backup
See :h backup-table


Thanks,
Christian
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