a question about evim
Fred
puissante at lrc.puissante.com
Wed Jan 25 11:19:37 EST 2006
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 10:36, Bill Freeman wrote:
> Zhao Peng writes:
> > I have a simple question about evim (Easy Vim).
> >
> > Whenever I use evim to edit a file, say "abc.txt", a same-name file
> > plus "~" is always created. In this case, it will be "abc.txt~". It's a
> > bit annoying to me.
> >
> > Is there any way to avoid this? (Or it could casue some potential
> > problems if this behavior of evim is overridden.)
>
> I don't use evim, but this sounds like what emacs does. These are
> "backup" files. (Actually, they're your original file, renamed.) If your
> machine (or the editor) crashes, or you suffer significant operator error,
> you can at least get back to the previous version of the file.
...
I use emacs extensively, and get annoyed with the backup files too. So I
wrote a bash script I run peroidically to copy *all* the backup files in the
directory tree to /tmp.
And here it is:
#!/bin/bash
for bak in `find | egrep "(#.*#$|~$)"`
do
echo "nuking $bak"
mv $bak /tmp
done
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