[ale] inode change after vi a file ?

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 15:10 -0500, Jerry Yu wrote:
> do reliable atomic writes

Maybe they don't.  Maybe they don't expect more than one person to have
an excel spreadsheet open.  VI comes from a multi-user environment
mentality.  It needs to make sure the writes are atomic.  My guess is
that if you turn off the backup feature then you turn off this.  

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/vimfaq2html3.pl