Re: Vim :: How To Disable Swap File for FileType

On Saturday, February 9, 2013 9:43:13 PM UTC-6, edw...@edwardbeckett.com wrote:
> I change _vimrc to filetype text  as a test I.E. set ft=text and the swap file was still being created … However, I disabled my plugins and the autocmd worked … I'm of the impression there's a conflict with subsequent filetype settings …
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> As such I decided on an alternative :: Saving the swaps into a dedicated directory …
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> IE. set dir=$HOME/_vimswap//,%TEMP%//,/%TMP%//,.
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> That will work for me …
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> Thanks Benjamin
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Please bottom-post.

If you suspect further filetype settings are interfering, it's easy enough to figure out where it's being set:

:verbose set filetype?

This should tell you what the current filetype is and in which script it was set.

Vim by default includes this to detect the "text" filetype:

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.txt,*.text setf text

What file extension is your text file? Do you have any filetype detection rules to make Vim detect it as such?

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