Re: setting the name of the swap file?

On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Matt Martini wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to change the name of the swap file that Vim uses?
>
> I have just started using a centralized location for swapfiles with
> the 'directory' option.  However, I am running into a problem of name
> space collision, or lack of same.

Append two slashes to the end of your setting.

From :help 'directory':

- For Unix and Win32, if a directory ends in two path separators "//" or
"\\", the swap file name will be built from the complete path to the
file with all path separators substituted to percent '%' signs. This
will ensure file name uniqueness in the preserve directory.

E.g. I use:

" (some stuff to create ~/.vim-tmp if it doesn't exist)
" then:
set directory=~/.vim-tmp//,~/.tmp//,~/tmp//,/tmp//

--
Best,
Ben

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