How to prevent vim from creating (and leaving) temporary files?

Question

Why does vim create ~ files? Is there a way to disable that?

If it\'s for backup (or something), I use git for that.

Also, thes

Answer 1

; For Windows Users to back to temp directory

set backup
set backupdir=C:\WINDOWS\Temp
set backupskip=C:\WINDOWS\Temp\*
set directory=C:\WINDOWS\Temp
set writebackup