[wplug] small vi question

[John Harrold]

Sometime in September Kuzman Ganchev assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| 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).

i'm guessing that he's using vim and doesn't realize it. vim is the
standard vi editor on a few distros, like redhat.

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