Tilde-suffixed backup files

Neil Faiman

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Oct 21, 2021, 2:22:01 PM10/21/21

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I’m currently running BBEdit 14 on MacOS 11.6.

This behavior change might have to do with upgrading from Mojave to Big Sur in one jump when I upgraded to a new m1 iMac, or with a recent BBEdit upgrade, or with the fact that I reinstalled BBEdit pretty much from scratch when I upgraded my system.

Anyway, I am now getting tilde-suffixed backup files when I save a file in BBEdit. I don’t think that I ever saw this behavior before in many, many years of BBEdit use.

Some preference setting I’ve missed?

Thanks,
Neil Faiman

Rich Siegel

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Oct 21, 2021, 2:26:32 PM10/21/21

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On 21 Oct 2021, at 14:21, Neil Faiman wrote:

> I’m currently running BBEdit 14 on MacOS 11.6.
>
> This behavior change might have to do with upgrading from Mojave to
> Big Sur in one jump when I upgraded to a new m1 iMac, or with a recent
> BBEdit upgrade, or with the fact that I reinstalled BBEdit pretty much
> from scratch when I upgraded my system.
>
> Anyway, I am now getting tilde-suffixed backup files when I save a
> file in BBEdit. I don’t think that I ever saw this behavior before
> in many, many years of BBEdit use.

That behavior results from having "Make backup before saving" turned on,
and "Keep historical backups" turned off, although that can be
overridden via Emacs mode variables or EditorConfig.

R.

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Neil Faiman

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Oct 21, 2021, 2:38:18 PM10/21/21

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On Oct 21, 2021, at 2:26 PM, Rich Siegel <sie...@barebones.com> wrote:

That behavior results from having "Make backup before saving" turned on, and "Keep historical backups" turned off, although that can be overridden via Emacs mode variables or EditorConfig.