Re: macro question

2024-04-05 Thread Mike Mackovitch via discussions concerning the vile text editor
No need to mess with $cfilname. I have a write-hook that saves numbered backups (file~#~, where # is 1, 2, 3, etc.) by simply passing the filename to some code that makes a copy of the file using the next unused number and preserving the mod time. --mike On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 2:46 PM Thomas

Re: macro question

2024-04-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 08:01:01PM +, david sowerby wrote: > Hi, in Vim/Neovim I can save a copy of the file when I exit. The copy is > renamed file-$(date +%s).bak. This gives me a file with an increasing number > plus .bak. It looks like "date+%s" and "" do the same thing. Is this >