Re: macro question

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 08:01:01PM +0000, david sowerby wrote:
> Hi, in Vim/Neovim I can save a copy of the file when I exit. The copy is 
> renamed file-$(date +%s).bak. This gives me a file with an increasing number 
> plus .bak. It looks like "date+%s" and  "&stime" do the same thing. Is this 
> possible in vile? I know I can save a file as file.bak but I like to save a 
> series of changed files, not just one. 
> So a macro that saves a copy and I then call that macro with write-hook.  
> Thanks.

write-hook is called before a file is written (so I don't think it would work
just like the suggested order).

But you could have a macro which decides what the filename should be,
and writes to that.  The macro should save and restore $cfilname,
otherwise $cfilname will get updated to point to the most recently
written file.

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net

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