RE: swap file directory

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-----Original Message-----
> From: vim_use@googlegroups.com [mailto:vim_use@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Ben Fritz
> Sent: quinta-feira, 26 de janeiro de 2012 13:46
> To: vim_use
> Subject: Re: swap file directory
>
>
>
> On Jan 25, 12:29 pm, Damian Rodriguez Sanchez
> <damian.sanc...@itautec.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I stated to use a new computer where, as I expected for a default
> behaviour,
> > swap files are created in the current directory on a given screen or
> window.
> > But that happens only for the first file opened for a given screen or
> > window. If I split the window (:sp or :vsp) and open different files on
> each
> > split, those files will have their corresponding swap files created
> > somewhere else (/var/tmp).
> >
> > I tried specifying a specific directory for swap file in my .vimrc
> inserting
> > a line such as:
> >
> > set directory=~/.vim/swap_files//
> >
> > but it had effect only for the main file edited. Swap files for
> subsequent
> > files edited on each split continue to be created on /var/tmp.
> >
> > Does anybody know what I have to do to have only one location for all
> swap
> > files?
> >
>
> You shouldn't need to do anything special. By default Vim will create
> the swap files in the same directory as the edited file, for all
> files. If this is not working, then Vim either cannot write to the
> directory containing the file for some reason, or your 'directory'
> option is being changed by some autocmd or plugin without your
> knowing. Try using :verbose set directory? to see what it is set to
> and from where when you discover that your swap file is not being
> written where you expect. Also check that you have permissions to
> create files in the directory you're editing files in.
>
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Thank you Ben!

It was the default /etc/vimrc configuration that was changing my 'directory'
option. For some reason it thinks it's a good idea to create swap files
somewhere else for files that are edited from medias mounted on /media and
/mnt:

autocmd BufNewFile,BufReadPre /media/*,/mnt/* set
directory=~/tmp,/var/tmp,/tmp

I didn't know this. Is it default for all vim installations or only on this
Linux distribution? (Fedora)

I commented it out and things went back to normal.

This configuration is not interesting at all for me since I'm using a
working directory permanently mounted on /mnt (a hard disk, not a flash
drive or anything).

It doesn't even seem to work as it should since, as I explained in my
previous e-mail, it makes swap files for the first file opened on a given
window be created in the same directory as the ones that correspond to those
opened on subsequent splits of the same window.

Or am I getting something wrong?

Anyway, thanks again.

Damián.

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