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- 6.8 On a Win32 machine, I'm using Vim to edit a symbolically linked file on
- a Unix NFS file server. When I write the file, Vim does not "write through"
- the symlink. Instead, it deletes the symbolic link and creates a new file in
- its place. Why?
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- On Unix, Vim is prepared for links (symbolic or hard). A backup copy of the
- original file is made and then the original file is overwritten. This
- assures that all properties of the file remain the same. On non-Unix
- systems, the original file is renamed and a new file is written. Only the
- protection bits are set like the original file. However, this doesn't work
- properly when working on an NFS-mounted file system where links and other
- things exist. The only way to fix this in the current version is not making
- a backup file, by ``:set nobackup nowritebackup''.
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- 6.9 How do I copy text from Windows applications to the DOS version of Vim?
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