By default, Vim appends a tilde ~ to backup files. I know there’s a configuration option to customize the backup file extension: If you set backupext=.bak in your .vimrc file, your backup files will have .bak appended to them instead of a tilde.
I’m wondering what’s the best way to have Vim automatically prepend characters to the backup file name. Specifically, I’d like Vim to prepend a period . while continuing to append a tilde ~.
(If you’re wondering why, I use KDE and don’t like Dolphin to display backup files – see http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=82350).
I also looked at this thread, but I don’t want to create a custom backups directory, I just want to prepend a character to the backup file name.
One potential solution is to
and then add
in your ~/.vimrc so that you don’t have to look at them.
However if you want to keep them in the same directory you could rename them when you write them like this: