Re: Backup Directory

On Mo, 09 Mär 2026, CrestChristopher wrote:

> When I create a file in Vim, save it; a backup should be created after the
> save or after I've saved and added more to the document. In either case none
> of these two are working ?

So I tried this out:

#v+
~/tmp/$ mkdir ~/vim-backup
~/tmp/$ cat backup.vim
set nocp
set backupdir=~/vim-backup//
set backup
~/tmp/$ vim --clean -u backup.vim
:e ~/.vim/vimrc
:w
:q
~/tmp/$ ls -l ~/vim-backup/
-rw-r--r-- 1 chrisbra chrisbra 12481 Jan 20 2025 %home%chrisbra%.vim%vimrc~
#v-

Works as expected.


Thanks,
Christian
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