I'm learning to use Vim in Xcode and within Terminal. I've used VimTutor to learn the basics. The issue I've run into when creating a text file is additional, garbage files being created whenever I create or edit a .txt file -
vim index.txt produces the following:
How do I prevent vim from creating the .index.html.un~ and index.html~ files? It's annoying me and git.
Thanks, jake
Both vim and Git have their own support resources and I think you’ll get better answers there than here. However…
These backups are controlled by the backup option. If, inside vim, you enter the command :help set, you’ll get lots of help about how options work.
It's annoying …
git.
You can also configure Git to ignore these backup files. This is explained in the gitignore man page.
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Thanks for the info. I'll look into it.
