Hi,

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> 
> In my ~/.vimrc, I've got, among other settings, "set backup". Because
> of this, vim creates backup files in the current directory. That's good!
> 
> But when I edit a file which is in /tmp, there's no backup file "left
> behind".
> 
> Why's that so and how do I change this?
> 
> I'm using vim 7.0 on Gentoo Linux.

have a look at

  :help 'backupskip'

Regards,
Jürgen

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