Re: Doh!

[Matt Doughty <mdoughty@example.com>]

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:04:41AM -0000, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> >The only editor I use is vim and by default it creates a backup file with a
> >"~" at the end. Have recovered data many times because of that.
> 
> Is this a setting you had to put into you .rc file?
> 
> >The version is 5.7 and uses the default vimrc file included with the 
> >source.
> 
> vi on my RH6.2 seems to be vim 5.6 but it didn't create a backup. I think 
> the backup is only created at startup time and then deleted if you exit 
> properly, which I did.
> 
> Jc
... and you would be correct. The file with the ~ is deleted after successful exit from vim. You might want to try undeleting that file. Unless of course you have since edited the file again in vim.

//Matt