Hello Kevin et al.,
There are also a few more things you could do to with Vim to "protect your
work”. First of all you can enable persistent undo. This will let you “go back
in the past” of every text file you edit. When you will press “u” for undo Vim
will revert the changes/edits that you made to the file. This StackExchange
thread will provide you with more details:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/192212/vim-how-to-trace-back-all-changes-done-to-file-during-the-day
<https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/192212/vim-how-to-trace-back-all-changes-done-to-file-during-the-day>.
In short you may place the below settings into your .vimrc file:
" persistent undo {{{
" -------
if has("persistent_undo") && (v:version >= 704)
set undodir=~/.vim/undodir
set undofile
set undolevels=1000
set undoreload=10000
endif
" }}}
Second, you may enable Vim’s backup feature. Please see the settings below.
This way your back-up directory “backupdir” will contain the back-ups of your
text files that you worked on. These files will have the name of <filename>~,
i.e. the file name with a tilde at the end. When you will need to recover your
work you will have to go to the back-up directory and rename the “tilde” file
back into the original file. For example, if you work on a file “article.tex”
your back-up file will be located in ~/tmp/article.tex~. In case your
article.tex gets damaged or lost, you will be able to get the recovery version
from ~/tmp/article.tex~ and rename it into the original article.tex.
" backup {{{
" ------
set backup
set backupdir=~/tmp
set directory=~/tmp
set writebackup
" }}}
Finally, if you don’t know about it, yet there are plenty of version control
software. For example Git. I would highly recommend you to learn it. Each
project that you work on you may store in the separate repository on an online
server, e.g. GitHub or GitLab. This repository can be private, if needed. It is
a good practice to “commit” your changes to the Git repository at least daily.
This way in the worst case you will only loose one day’s work. I hope this
helps. Thank you and have a good day ahead!
—
Best wishes,
Maxim
Maxim Abalenkov \\ [email protected]
+44 7 486 486 505 \\ http://mabalenk.gitlab.io
> On 5 Nov 2020, at 23:21, Ruben Safir <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 11/5/20 4:19 PM, Kennedy, Marcus A. wrote:
>> A good backup system should provide more than the most recent copy.
>
>
> PLEASE do not do this. The swp files are already enough, if not too
> much. VIM is simple and works. Leave it that way. Let the user filing
> this crazy complaint use openoffice (or learn good habits).
>
>
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