Re: vim: recover an unnamed file

On 2013-05-16, ping wrote:
> On 5/16/2013 7:28 PM, tooth pik wrote:
> >one thing I've found helpful in different circumstances is to set the
> >'directory' option in my .vimrc to a single known folder (~/.vim-tmp)
> >-- that way all swap files are created in the same place, facilitating
> >both recovery and scripting -- I like to make sure there are no
> >swapfiles before starting an extensive session
> that sounds a good idea, but what will happen if you have two files
> in different folders have the same name?
> will VIM associate each file with a different swap file name without
> confusion?

You can specify 'directory' such that there are no name collisions.
See

:help 'directory'

There it explains that

- For Unix and Win32, if a directory ends in two path separators "//"
or "\\", the swap file name will be built from the complete path to
the file with all path separators substituted to percent '%' signs.
This will ensure file name uniqueness in the preserve directory.
On Win32, when a separating comma is following, you must use "//",
since "\\" will include the comma in the file name.

For example, this is how I set 'directory' in my ~/.vimrc:

if has("win32")
set directory=~/tmp/vimswap//,$TMP//,$TEMP//
elseif has("unix")
set directory=~/tmp/vimswap//,~/.vimswap//,~/tmp//,/var/tmp//,/tmp//
else
set directory-=.
endif

I don't know what OS I would ever use other than Windows or Unix,
but I don't want to ever create a swap file in any directory other
than one I've chosen for that purpose. Doing so would change the
modification time of the directory even though I may not have made
any other changes to it.

Regards,
Gary

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