What's with these files with a tilde (~) at the end?

[Billy Pollifrone]

vim creates these backup files. While they may be annoying, there are times
where they come in handy. I know you can turn it off in the .vimrc, and the
other editors probably have a similar setting. You can always remove them
using a wildcard in a terminal with one foul swoop.

On 2/12/06, Dave M G <martin at autotelic.com> wrote:
>
> Ubuntu Users,
>
>     It seems that various programs, like Gedit and Quanta and others,
> when they edit text files, like regular text and HTML files, create
> these backup files that have a tilde character on the end. They look
> like this:
>     examplefile.txt~
>
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