[cream] no backup files

[Marc E. <me...@gm...>]

Hi Steve,

I'm using cream at work and at home and I love it. But yesterday I ran 
into a strange problem: I was editing cgi files on a shared samba mount. 
When I saved the files they always got the attributes of the create mask 
  for this samba share (which means the loose the executable bit and ore 
not longer executable by apache). I then found out that when editing one 
of these files using notepad, the attributes do not change. So, I 
googled around and found out that gvim (and I assume cream too) always 
renames the old files to .swp and creates a new file.

I also saw that there are vim options like nobackup, nowritebackup, 
backupcopy and I tried to make cream not to rename the old file but 
instead copy it or don't create a backup at all using ":set nobackup" or 
"set: backupcopy" in my cream-user.vim file but I didn't succeed. I 
wonder if you could tell me how I can teach cream to use the backupcopy 
mode (which means copy original to .swp and overwrite original) instead 
of the standard mode? This would be really great.

Then I have another question. I'm sure you know about the following 
problem: After restarting cream when using "tabbed documents" and "last 
file restore" if often happens that some files are crammed into the last 
tab in "split mode" instead of creating a tab for each them. This can 
happen if you use the right click menu (I know you can't change this) or 
when using ctags (which opens new files in the current tab, but still 
leaves the other file loaded) and so on. What I would like to know is 
there a magic command which re-tabs all documents into their own tab 
forcing the files which are crammed in the last created tab into their 
own tabs. I think you mentioned such a command long time ago when 0.36 
beta 2 was around, but I can't remember. I also wonder if it's possible 
to include that command in my cream-user vim to always force the files 
into seperate tabs when cream is re-opened.

Thanks for letting me know.

Marc