Re: Vim warns of swap files in "/var/tmp/"

On Friday, May 10, 2013 8:34:03 AM UTC-5, Eric Weir wrote:
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> A clue. I've been trying to get vim touch going on an android tablet. And I've been syncing the '.vim' folders on the tablet and my macbook but not the .vimrcs. 
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Swap files usually are not in your .vim folder. I think this is a red herring.

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> Just now on the macbook I executed the vimwiki command to rename a link and it asked if I wanted to create a new folder on android file path. I thought maybe I'd accidentally copied the android .vimrc to the home folder on my macbook, but I checked and I had not. My vim [macbook] and vim touch [table] setups are identical except for the paths to folders need by my plugins. I assumed it was safe to sync the .vim folders between the two systems, but I'm guessing that it's not.
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Syncing .vim folders, if you do it right, is perfectly safe. Many people keep their .vim files on Bitbucket or Github or whatever and sync between computers and operating systems all the time. Also, weren't you asking about swap files? What does any of the above have to do with swap files?

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> I've disabled syncing between the tablet and the macbook and will go back into my backups before I started syncing the two systems and restore my .vim folder from there.
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How are you syncing things?

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> If anyone has any suggestions for how I can more easily get back to a healthy '.vim' folder I'd appreciate them.
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I've seen no evidence it's unhealthy now.

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