This is a mirror of http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1537
Holds numbered backups inside a separate directory.
Automatically purges old backups. Standard is to hold the last 10 versions.
Tested with Linux, MS-Windows and OpenVMS.
- IMPORTANT:
- Creating this plugin was only possible because vim 7 offers new file management functions - namely :mkdir, finddir() delete() and the new List datatype. This plugin won'g work with vim 6.x.
Install from https://github.com/krischik/vim-backup using dein (https://github.com/Shougo/dein.vim) or similar:
call dein#begin('$HOME/vimfiles/bundles')
call dein#add('krischik/vim-backup')
call dein#end()
call dein#install()
set the following global variables:
- g:backup_directory
- name of backup directory local to edited file used for non VMS only. Since non VMS operating-systems don't know about version we would get ugly directory listings. So all backups are moved into a hidden directory.
- g:backup_purge
- count of backups to hold - purge older once. On VMS PURGE is used to delete older version 0 switched the feature off.
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