Re: Removing junk .swp files

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 12:49:06 PM UTC-5, BPJ wrote:
> Is there any easy/automatized way to remove junk (as in not
>
> associated with any file currently open in (g)vim) .swp files
>
> in the current directory and its subdirectories?
>
> A plugin perhaps?
>

Such .swp files should never exist if you always exit Vim normally.

Only when Vim crashes or gets terminated abnormally will you have such files hanging around.

Having them stick around is how recovery works.

One of the "swap exists" choices that will appear the next time you edit that file, is to delete the swap file. If Vim is not editing that file, under what circumstances should Vim delete them? You risk losing the ability to recover files if Vim scans the current directory for any swap files on startup or something.

On Unix-like systems, swap files should be hidden by default, so you won't see them cluttering up anything unless you deliberately show swap files.

On Windows systems, check out my autohide plugin to accomplish the same:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4505

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