Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Re: swap files reverting my work erroneously

On Tue, August 2, 2011 3:27 pm, George Dinwiddie wrote:
> On 8/2/11 1:44 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote:
>> I have been thinking lately if it would be a good idea, if Vim would
>> only create a swap file, when it detects, that a change to the buffer
>> has been made. But not just when viewing a file.
>>
>> That is usually what happens a lot to me. I have 1 file open and in
>> another Vim instance I open the same file again only for viewing, so I
>> would like to avoid the "Attention" prompt.
>>
>> On the other hand I can see, that it is certainly useful, if you start
>> editing a file and immediately Vim warns you, that another Vim instance
>> is already editing that file. Hm, may be a new option swaponchange or
>> something?
>
> I'd just like to note that if you open the file in read-only mode (e.g.,
> with 'view <filename>'), then no swap file is created.

Yeah, if just my fingers would remember ;)

regards,
Christian

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