On 2017-12-27, Kaiyu Shi wrote:
> description
>
> I made a symbolic link of .viminfo, it's opened and interpreted as normal. But
> once saving to this file, the symbolic link is replaced by a normal file with
> new contents. I'd see this behaviour as a bug.
>
> reproduce snippet
>
> cd ~
> mv .viminfo /tmp/
> ln -s /tmp/.viminfo
> vim foo # make sure you type some commands which vim will save to .viminfo
> ls -ali .viminfo # the symbolic file is changed to a normal file
See
:help 'backupcopy'
Regards,
Gary
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