Hi all

I am just starting to do the better thing so please explain in detail if you can, thanks!

Any ways, I was doing some Perl script editing today in KWrite and I ran into a problem I can not figure out! When I am finished editing I do Ctrl + S and I guess it over writes the old file! But that is not what happens. When I do that and close KWrite I see another file named the same name as the file I just edited but with a * ~ * at the end of it's name, like so * geo_uk.pl~ *. I have to manual delete it because my password end up in that file. So how do I stop that file from being created or have it automatically deleted when I am done editing the original!

Thanks for your time!

Tommy

I'm probably the least informed person to answer this, but the only time I've seen the tilde is when a process is interupted before it completes. ie: when there's a power outage or closing an application before it completes processing.

My experience has been *~ file seems to be the version of the file * prior to your last save. For example say you save, type for a bit then save a minute later. The file with the ~ will be what you saved a minute ago. I'm really not sure if this is entirely accurate, and have no idea if there's a way to disable this function.

Those are baclup files created by the text editor in case you need to revert to the old version. You can configure each app individually to prevent it from creating such files.

Thank you leandean, mcmillan and reddazz...

I have gone through the kWrite docs, every page but don't see any where how I can auto remove the copies when I Ctrl + S the changes I made! I'll play with it a little more today to see if I can figure it out!

Thanks again...

Tommy

I have the German version of Kwrite only, but the menus to get to this option should be called something like "Settings" --> "Configure Editor" --> "Open/Save" --> "Backup when saving" (the right option is now at the bottom of the right tab).

Edit: Corrections

Awesome, titopoquito!!!

Yes that worked just great. Wow I guess I really need to spend time learning this stuff, you know I opened the setting menu but did not go that far! Really I thank you and everyone else so much! This forum rocks! So much great content...

C, ya...

Tommy

Another suggestion is to forget those WYSIWYG editors and start learning the tools used by system administrators to maintain scripts; namely, the sed editor and the vi editor (or vim, which stands for vi improved)..

Here's a very good article (short tutorial) you'll be interested in that demonstrates how to use sed to maintain files (scripts). http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub...laney_sed.html

Take the time to learn sed and vi, or vim, and you'll never have to worry about all that automated stuff in those other "editors."

To get started learing vim, open a terminal window and type, vimtutor, then press Enter.

Stick with it and you'll be glad you did.