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COW Links

Posted Apr 1, 2004 16:29 UTC (Thu) by aleph70 (guest, #4832)
Parent article: COW Links

I use vim with these settings in my vimrc:

set backupcopy=no
set writebackup

When editing a file the original is renamed for backup and a new file is
created.

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