That's neat, and a missing part of my vimrc - making sure the directories I use exist. Since I use .cache and exclude those from backups, it's actually bit me.

That's neat, and a missing part of my vimrc - making sure the directories I use exist. Since I use .cache and exclude those from backups, it's actually bit me. I've added this thanks to you: call mkdir($HOME . "/.cache/vim/", "p", 0o700) I think this avoids using the conditionals, by just using "p".