Re: vim: how to stop vim from generating ANY additional files?

On 2/16/2013 10:54 PM, John Little wrote:
> In principle, you'd want set noswf as well, but I think your approach is ... well, would "foolhardy" be acceptable? Perhaps "risky" is better. These backup and swap files protect against losing your files. One doesn't need them often, but I've been very glad on several occasions. Undo files are off by default.
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> You shouldn't be getting stray swap files, it's much preferable to work out why vim is dying and fix it. Note that after vim does die, on the next restart vim warns you about the problem but is reluctant to delete the file, you may have to manually delete it.
I understood, thanks for reminding.
I won't turn them off in my daily work.
but I just want to have a quick/neat way to turn them off in SOME
scenarios .
so my current method is to define following map

"no additonal files
nn ,nf <esc>:set nobackup<CR>:set noudf<CR>:set noswp<CR>

so right after I started a new vim before I open any system config file,
I quickly type ",nf" to turn off any additional file generations.
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> Backup files are IMO better tamed using the backupdir option to put them in a central place.
this looks good, but what if you have 2 files from different folders
sharing the same name?

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