a question about evim

[Bill Freeman]

Michael ODonnell writes:
 > 
 > 
 > >> I'd advise getting used to/enjoying [...] backups.
 > 	[...]
 > >I don't know how long it would take me to kill my
 > >computer if I couldn't turn that off
 > 
 > 
 > Amen!  Backup files like that have caused me MUCH more
 > trouble than they've ever been worth.  For example, in just
 > the last couple of months I've been called upon to solve
 > one modprobe problem and one ifcfg problem that nearly had
 > me frothing at the mouth.  It turned out that the poor
 > lusers had allowed somebody to edit their config files
 > with an editor that left those backup turds lying around.
 > Later, no matter how many changes they made to the "real"
 > config files (with an editor that was NOT incontinent) those
 > backup files would be silently evaluated AFTER the "real"
 > files and basically inflict the previous config on them.

	An interesting glitch.  Not, apparently, common, but worth
remembering.

 > Yes, the fact that backup files were being acted upon
 > instead of ignored might be counted as a bug, but leaving
 > junk lying around like that is still just basically rude.

	I'll have to disagree.  I find it to be friendly.  Perhaps
less so in the days of no subdirectories and a very limited number of
directory entries in the root of a DOS floppy, or if you know of some
standard file suffix that ends in tilde.  To each his own.

							Bill