No backup file ??

[xtronics]

Shouldn't diakonos make a backup file ( filename~ ) like every other editor?

[Pistos]

No one's ever asked for this before! :) Could you outline how you expect such a feature to behave? Please include as many edge cases as you can think of.

[xtronics]

Just like all the other editors - if you open a file - nothing happens - only when you save.

Let us say that the file name is file.txt

• on saving the original file is moved to file.txt~ over writing the last bkup if it exists.

Then the edited file is saved to file.txt

This is how e3, kate, emacs, vim, nano, pico etc..... all work.

Pretty simple, the closest thing to an edge case would be if file.txt~ existed with the wrong permissions - which should throw an error - and likely file.txt will also have the same permissions.

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[Pistos]

Thanks for the outline. Consider this feature on the TODO list.

[Pistos]

save_backup_files configuration setting implemented.