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Old 20th February 2020
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Default vi "set backup" option

I'm wondering if this is the expected behaviour or if it's a bug.

With the following in ~/.nexrc

Code:
set backup=N"/home/$user/.vi/backup/%~"
If I edit a file from outside its directory, for example:

Code:
vi dev/x.py
Upon exit with :wq it errors with:

Code:
Error: /home/$user/.vi/backup/dev/x.py~: No such file or directory.
Whereas if editing the file from within its directory (e.g., vi x.py), vi does save a backup at ~/.vi/backup/x.py~1

On a somewhat related note, I must use set backup=N"/home/$user/.vi/backup/%~" because set backup=N"~/.vi/backup/%~" also errors with:

Code:
Error: "~/.vi/backup/%~": No such file or directory.
Regardless of whether opening the file from within or outside its directory.
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Old 23rd February 2020
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While I don't have an answer to your question, I can certainly replicate both behaviours you're seeing. Though on my system $USER needs to be upper-case. Tested on 6.6 amd64 with my own ~/.exrc

If I set the backup uption to
Code:
set backup=N"%~"
it works from anywhere in the file system. But the backup files are always written into the same directory as the original file, accumulating over time with every :wq
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Old 24th February 2020
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On FreeBSD 12 with:
Code:
set backup=N"/home/$USER/.vi/backup/%.bak~
I can edit a file in the current directory and the backup is made .e.g. :
$ cd Iowa_caucus ; vi dhondt.sh
Code:
[adriaan@ProliantX /usr/home/adriaan/.vi/backup]$ ls -ltr
total 20
-rw-------  1 adriaan  adriaan    12 Feb 24 00:53 aap.bak1
-rw-------  1 adriaan  adriaan    29 Feb 24 00:55 aap.bak2
-rw-------  1 adriaan  adriaan   110 Feb 24 01:06 aap.bak~1
-rw-------  1 adriaan  adriaan  1298 Feb 24 01:09 dhondt.sh.bak~1
-rw-------  1 adriaan  adriaan  1326 Feb 24 01:10 dhondt.sh.bak~2
When I am in my home directory and edit the file with $ vi Iowa_caucus/dhondt.sh I get the following error:
Code:
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
Error: /home/adriaan/.vi/backup/Iowa_caucus/dhondt.sh.bak~: No such file or
directory.
Press any key to continue [: to enter more ex commands]:
So this phenomenon is not limited to OpenBSD
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What happens if you create a sub-directory of the backup directory with the same name as the sub-directory the file is in? In toprank's example this would be

/home/$user/.vi/backup/dev

and in J65nko's example it would be

/home/$USER/.vi/backup/Iowa_caucus

I am guessing that vi is unwilling to create this itself.
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Old 24th February 2020
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If I create the subdirectories in ~/.vi/backup, it works; however, I don't feel like recreating the system's directory tree in ~/.vi/backup. And creating the subdirectory prior to editing a file negates the utility of the set backup feature as I may as well just mkdir -p .vi/backup/file/path; cp file/path/file.name ~/.vi/backup/file/path/; vi file/path/file.name myself.

If the developers are aware that this is how it functions or purposely made it this way, that's cool; I wasn't sure if that's the case or if it's a bug, and would file a bug report if the latter.
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Vi substitutes "%" with whatever was passed on the commandline. So if you edit ../somefile, it'll put the backup in ~/.vi/

Not ideal...
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I don't know why vi does it the way it does ... but FWIW here's my thinking about it.

If all backup files were put in the same directory (say, the top level ~/.vi/backup directory) then there could be collisions between the backups of files with the same name that originate in different directories, e.g.,

dir1/file and dir2/file

In an attempt to mitigate this problem, vi could create the necessary sub-directories. However, a little thought shows this will not solve all possible collision problems. So maybe they want the user to create these directories so they can be aware of and manage the potential issues?

That's all just a guessing on my part, and I haven't thought it through further than that. Quite possible there's another or better reason for how it works.
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Old 24th February 2020
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Also, if it didn't use the full path, in the typical use case where you want the backup saved in the same directory as the original file, editing ../somefile or docs/otherfile has to conider the path part or the backup will end up in the user's current directory, and not in the directory with the file.

It should probaby do something different if you specify an absolute path as the backup directory.
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Old 24th February 2020
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Quote:
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What happens if you create a sub-directory of the backup directory with the same name as the sub-directory the file is in?
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and in J65nko's example it would be

/home/$USER/.vi/backup/Iowa_caucus

I am guessing that vi is unwilling to create this itself.
Yes, that is the reason:
Code:
$  vi Iowa_caucus/dhondt.sh
Iowa_caucus/dhondt.sh: 82 lines, 1299 characters.
$ ls -ltrR .vi
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  3 adriaan  adriaan  512 Feb 24 19:19 backup

.vi/backup:
total 24
-rw-------  1 adriaan  adriaan    12 Feb 24 00:53 aap.bak1
-rw-------  1 adriaan  adriaan    29 Feb 24 00:55 aap.bak2
-rw-------  1 adriaan  adriaan   110 Feb 24 01:06 aap.bak~1
-rw-------  1 adriaan  adriaan  1298 Feb 24 01:09 dhondt.sh.bak~1
-rw-------  1 adriaan  adriaan  1326 Feb 24 01:10 dhondt.sh.bak~2
drwxr-xr-x  2 adriaan  adriaan   512 Feb 24 19:20 Iowa_caucus

.vi/backup/Iowa_caucus:
total 4
-rw-------  1 adriaan  adriaan  1331 Feb 24 19:20 dhondt.sh.bak1
Please note that this is with set backup=N"/home/$USER/.vi/backup/%.bak" because I thought the '~' could play a role or be the culprit.....
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I made a small shell script that will do backups for vi.
If you use this script you must disable backups in .nexrc and/or .exrc.
The script is here:
https://gitlab.com/bsdun/vibak.sh
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