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Why would you not just set the location of the backup and swapfiles to a fixed place in your system? Try this: set backupdir=~/.vim/backups,. set dire
by bananicorn 6y ago
Why would you not just set the location of the backup and swapfiles to a fixed place in your system?
Try this:
set backupdir=~/.vim/backups,.
set directory=~/.vim/swapfiles,.
It will only write in the current directory, if ~/.vim/backups does not exist, and the dot is just there for portability, so nothing breaks when using my vimrc on a new system.
Edit:
Upon actually reading your blog-post, I understand at least one reason - my options may not change the behaviour of a file not being written to the correct inode, so you have a point for some build systems.
I actually learned rather much reading this, thank you for sharing!
- leephillips 6y agoIn fact, I think your idea is better, and I’ll probably switch to doing that some day, just in case one of these files turns out to save me. Edit: Hmmm. I’ll have to think some more about it. Anyway, glad you found my witeup useful.
- nemetroid 6y agoYou should end your swapfile directory setting with two slashes, i.e.: set directory=~/.vim/swapfiles//,. From the help text for "directory": > For Unix and Win32, if a directory ends in two path separators "//", the swap file name will be built from the complete path to the file with all path separators replaced by percent '%' signs (including the colon following the drive letter on Win32). This will ensure file name uniqueness in the preserve directory.