On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:34:01PM -0400, Russ Schneider wrote: > How do you prevent vi from saving redundant files (ending in ~)? I don't think vi does that -- at least not on any machines I've tried it no. Emacs saves backups ending in ~. You can stop this by adding (setq make-backup-files nil) to your configuration file (probably .emacs). Kuzman