Re: vim: recover an unnamed file

On 2013-05-17, ping wrote:
> On 5/17/2013 1:56 AM, Gary Johnson wrote:
> >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
> >
>
> thanks Gary, that looks nice and self-adaptive
> I found another one here:
> https://github.com/docwhat/homedir-vim/blob/master/vimrc/.vimrc
>
> it looks more complex, do you think it is good ?

That approach looks fine to me.

Regards,
Gary

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