[CentOS] vim and backup files

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Joseph L. Casale
<jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:
>>Works for me.. Maybe you have backupdir set someplace else?? I just
>>tried with fully updated 4.8 and 5.5 systems..
>
> Odd, even with backupdir explicitly set, it doesn't make a copy?
> It's getting disabled someplace as strace doesn't indicate any
> mention of it.

strace won't show much unless there's a system call being made.  You'd
need a debugger to watch the application itself..

Can you dump your current configuration?  I.e., post output of:

 :set

or

 :let