Re: vim: recover an unnamed file

On 5/17/2013 1:36 AM, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2013-05-17, Ping wrote:
>
>> On May 16, 2013, at 10:41 PM, ping wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/16/2013 8:48 PM, Gary Johnson wrote:
>>>> After a quick look at Vim's memline.c, I think you are the victim of
>>>> poor housekeeping and a bug in Vim. You may still be able to
>>>> recover your files though.
> [...]
>
>>>> To your problem: It is quite likely that the same directories that
>>>> contain files named ".swa" also contain files named ".svz", ".svy",
>>>> and so on. Those are valid Vim swap files, but Vim doesn't
>>>> recognize them as such by those names.
>>>>
>>>> I would suggest first verifying that you do not care about the files
>>>> matching the pattern ".sw?", then delete them. Then find the newest
>>>> file with a name matching the pattern ".s??", rename it to ".swp",
>>>> and try recovering it.
>>>>
>>>> Once you've recovered all your files, I would suggest that you close
>>>> all instances of Vim and do a sweep of your file system using find
>>>> (not grep) to find all your swap files. Again be sure that you do
>>>> not need them, then delete them all. In the future, pay attention
>>>> to swap files left over after crashes and keep them cleaned up.
>>> thanks Gary, I think I only undertsand some part of your explanations.
>>> can you detail the steps for me to recover my file?
>> and, I just found that I had the swap file disabled :(
> That's unfortunate. Does that mean that you no longer need a better
> explanation?
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>

I think for now there might be no way for me to get that back , since I
clearly had this line in my vimrc:

setlocal noswapfile "disable swapfile,

I think I intentionlly did it for some purpose before .
one thing is I don't want to generate all of those aux files in like a
system folder .

but after reading
[more](http://my.opera.com/peterchenadded/blog/2008/12/27/gvim-7-1-swap-and-backup-files)

I think I still should have the backup file turned on.

backupdir=.,~/tmp,~/

so I should still have my backup for unnamed files right?

now I learned this good way of putting in a centrollized folder
[here](https://github.com/docwhat/homedir-vim/blob/master/vimrc/.vimrc)

I just have a thought now, will the backup file remains when we delete
the original file? if so maybe we can still recover the whatever files
back even if the original ones (even an unnamed buffer? ) got deleted?


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