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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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gconf-editor

gconf-editor(1) 						   User Commands						   gconf-editor(1)

NAME

       gconf-editor - view and edit personal desktop configuration preferences

SYNOPSIS

       gconf-editor

DESCRIPTION

       The  GConf  Editor  application enables you to view and edit all of your current personal desktop preferences. The GConf Editor window pro-
       vides a tree view to navigate through the hierarchy of preferences, an edit pane to make changes to individual preferences, and a  descrip-
       tion pane to highlight the documentation associated with the currently selected preference.

OPTIONS

       None.

OPERANDS

       None.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching GConf Editor

       example% gconf-editor

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gconf-editor   Executable for GConf Editor.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |				   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |				   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop System Administration Guide for your platform.

NOTES

       Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    1 Oct 2003							   gconf-editor(1)