created by

Martin Krischik

script type

utility

description

Holds numered backups inside a seperate directory. Automaticly purges old backups. Standart is to hold the last 10 versions. Tested with Linux, MS-Windows and OpenVMS. IMORTANT: 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. Reports errors to: http://code.google.com/p/vim-scripts/issues/list Discuss improvements on: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_scripts For Support see: http://code.google.com/p/vim-scripts/wiki/NumberedBackups

install details

Copy to plugin directory and 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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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
backup.vim	2.2	2007-07-20	7.0	Martin Krischik	There was a bug for windows in conjunction with spaces in file names. It did not affect Unix like OS. And it's fixed now.
backup.vim	2.1	2006-11-18	7.0	Martin Krischik	bug fixes.
backup.vim	2.0	2006-05-25	7.0	Martin Krischik	New coordinated release for all Ada plugins. Binary releases which are patched with all Ada plugins is available from the GNU Ada project [1] [1] http://gnuada.sourceforge.net
backup.vim	1.1	2006-05-17	7.0	Martin Krischik	Fixed two bugs: VMS: "press key to continue" is gone. non VMS: set of backup directory to user defined variable fixed.
backup.vim	1.0	2006-05-10	7.0	Martin Krischik	Initial upload

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