On 14/12/12 17:41, SanDiegoGary wrote:
On Friday, December 14, 2012 12:41:50 AM UTC-8, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
On 14/12/12 09:18, SanDiegoGary wrote:
I'm using Vim 7.3.67 on Windows 7. I made a change to my .vimrc file, and now when I
launch vim by double-clicking a text file on my desktop, the tool works as expected. But
when I exit with :wq, the file icon moves as if "auto arrange icons" attribute
is set (which it is not). The icon doesn't move with :q
The .vimrc change I made was to add:
set backup
set backupdir=C:\Users\Gary\Temp
set backupskip=C:\Users\Gary\Temp
set directory=C:\Users\Gary\Temp
set writebackup
When I comment these change out of my .vimrc, the file icon doesn't move (which
is good), but the backup file is auto-added to my desktiop (in an icon aligned
way), which I'm trying to avoid...
Any ideas? I've done a bunch of google searches, but no luck on this one.
Thanks!
Gary
See :help 'backupcopy'
Best regards,
Tony.
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Thanks for the reply Tony! I'm not sure what you are suggesting. I read the man page for backupcopy, and tried
"yes", "no" and "auto" as arguments. Each time the file icon moved. From the man page
text, I'm assuming that since a new file is being created, it will ALWAYS be moved? If so, that's too annoying for me,
and I'll go back to "set nobackup", and take my chances with .swp file restoration when needed.
Thanks again,
Gary
I thought that your setting might be the one for creating a new file and
renaming the old one as the backup, but if you tried all values and it
always moves it must be something else.
AFAIK, ":set nobackup writebackup" is usually OK on Vim versions
compiled with +writebackup (i.e. ":if has('writebackup')" executes the
"then" branch and not the "else" branch of the if clause). Vim will then
keep a backup for just long enough to check that the write has succeeded.
Best regards,
Tony.
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