Vim leaves temp files everywhere

dive · 11-19-2005, 08:08 PM

Whenever I've edited a file with Vim I am left with a file such as 'filename~' which I have to rm manually.

Anyone know if theres an option to stop making these temp files? I look in my vimrc but didn't see anything relevant.

uselpa · 11-20-2005, 05:05 AM

set nobackup

dive · 11-20-2005, 05:16 AM

Thanks will do that

Widgeteye · 11-20-2005, 03:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dive
Whenever I've edited a file with Vim I am left with a file such as 'filename~' which I have to rm manually.

Anyone know if theres an option to stop making these temp files? I look in my vimrc but didn't see anything relevant.

They're not temp files they are backup files of the original file. If you turn that off you will have no backup of the original file and if you screw it up and can't remember exactly what was in it before you started your editing of the file YOU are screwed.

I advise against this. You can always remove them after you're done with your edit.
But it's up to you as always.

tuxdev · 11-20-2005, 06:04 PM

Using rm for every single file is annoying, and it is easy to delete both accidentally.

dive · 11-20-2005, 06:50 PM

I find it easier to make backups manualy of the important files than to keep rm'ing files afterward

maginotjr · 11-21-2005, 06:34 AM

the *~ are a p.. in the a..

jed leaves a lot of them too

gbonvehi · 11-21-2005, 12:22 PM

Well, you could setup a cron job with this:

Code:

find / -name *~ -exec rm {} \;

and the problem is gone

You could add a parameter to find to erase only files that weren't accessed in X days.