On Fr, 30 Jun 2017, Gary Johnson wrote:

> Thank you.  It doesn't seem to be working, though.  I updated to Vim
> 8.0.691, applied the patch, built and installed on a system running
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2.
> 
>     $ vim
>     :set backup? backupdir?
>       backup
>       backupdir=~/tmp/vimbackup//
> 
>     :e ~/hello.txt
>     " Make some changes.
>     :wq
>     $ ls ~/tmp/vimbackup
>     hello.txt~

Hm, I tested it and even included a test. Are you sure, you included the 
patch in the vim you have been running?

Best,
Christian
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