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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Prevent xed editor from creating backups Post 303002523 by iamwrong on Saturday 26th of August 2017 08:41:27 AM

08-26-2017

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Prevent xed editor from creating backups

This is the oddest thing I've seen in any text editor in the three OSes I've used since buying my first home computer in 1993.

Short version: "where's the switch?"

the xed GUI (version 1.0.6) appears to have no Option to keep it from creating backups (~-marked files) if a text or ASCII file is let open for 5 minutes or more, or edited without saving for about that long. Neither Pluma, gedit or kate/kwrite (which I also use, though far less frequently) do this, and I know gedit and the two KDE editors at least have an Option to prevent it from happening.

I like the idea of backups in word-processors, but as I only script (and don't code; I make an 'old-school' distinction there), I see no reason for them in other types of writing or editing. When writing scripts I much prefer Geany, mainly for its color scheme in shell scripts. In xed etc, I normally write the lists and what-have-you my scripts use as input.

Any Google hit I've followed that describes this option, ie enableBackups, doesn't explain as to where to write it. Is it necessary, as with wget or curl, to create a config file the app will read as it launches? Will it, in version 1.0.6, see such a file as valid?

I should probably post these questions to the appropriate forum on github, but I've honestly not been able to find the "front door" of any of those, even Google-ing for them.

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FPED:(1)						      General Commands Manual							  FPED:(1)

NAME

       fped - Footprint editor

SYNOPSIS

       fped   [-k] [-p|-P [-s scale]] [-T [-T]] [cpp_option ...] [in_file [out_file]]

DESCRIPTION

       fped  is  an editor that allows the interactive creation of footprints of electronic components. Footprint definitions are stored in a text
       format that resembles a programming language.  The language is constrained such that anything that can be expressed in the textual  defini-
       tion  also  has	a straightforward equivalent operation that can be performed through the GUI.  A description of the GUI can be found here:
       http://people.openmoko.org/werner/fped/gui.html

OPTIONS

       -k     write KiCad output, then exit

       -p     write Postscript output, then exit

       -P     write Postscript output (full page), then exit

       -s scale
	      scale factor for -P (default: auto-scale)

       -T     test mode. Load file, then exit

       -T -T  test mode. Load file, dump to stdout, then exit

       cpp_option
	      -Idir, -Dname[=value], or -Uname

       Please report any further bugs at werner@openmoko.org

LICENCE

       fped is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later.

AUTHORS

       Werner Almesberger <werner@openmoko.org>

       This manual page was written by Xiangfu Liu <xiangfu@sharism.cc> It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later).

								   October 2010 							  FPED:(1)