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. <div>On 2/12/06, Dave M G <<a href="mailto:martin@autotelic.com">martin@autotelic.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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~ </blockquote></div>