Re: gedit creates backups nautilus cannot view.

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 12 Apr 2003, Philip Wyett wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I filed what I believe to be a bug against gedit in Red Hat 9, which
> involves gedit creating backups in the form of 'filename~', which are
> not viewable under nautilus with or without the show hidden and backup
> files checked.
> 
> I won't go into repeating the bug report and just point you at the Red
> Hat bugzilla instead. This original bugzilla is the report and
> comments/checks against the gedit 2.2.x - 2.3.x source code.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88604
> 
> Is this a bug or by design?

The real bug is that the "show hidden and backup" prefs only changes the 
"hidden" part. This has been fixed in nautilus after RH9 was released.

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