On Aug 7, 12:10 am, Alan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I turned on file backups using "set backup" in my .vimrc. However, I want to > have emacs-style file backup behavior: > > "Emacs makes a backup for a file only the first time the file is saved from > a buffer. No matter how many times you subsequently save the file, its > backup remains unchanged. However, if you kill the buffer and then visit the > file again, a new backup file will be made." > > Is there anyway for vim to do this? Or has anyone written any scripts to do > this? > > (Vim's backups just write an additional "filename~" every time you save the > file, regardless if it was the first save.) >
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