Auto save for .txt files

[Parshwa Murdia]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:34 PM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think you are misunderstanding how auto save works with editors on
> linux. The file you are editing is usually saved as a different file.
> So if you are editing "myfile.txt"  then the older version of the file
> is kept as "myfile.txt~" and the autosaved file is usually saved as
> #myfile.txt#. This 2nd part differs depending on what editor you are
> using. I am not very familiar with gedit's behaviour to give any more
> details.


Oh I see, you must be correct and I am using 'gedit' editor. But in
the terminal I use vi-editor to create and save the files.
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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia