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

On May 10, 2013, at 7:41 PM, Ben Fritz wrote:

> On Friday, May 10, 2013 5:42:59 AM UTC-5, Eric Weir wrote:
>> Getting "swap file exists" warning. There are no swap files anywhere in my user directory. Then I notice the text of the warning:
>>
>> Swap file "/var/tmp/writing.taskpaper.swp" already exists!
>
> What is your 'directory' option set to? Is writing.taskpaper.swp related to a file you're editing, or a plugin?

I don't know how to set a 'directory' option. Not in macvim preferences. To the best of my knowledge it's never been set on my system.

writing.taskpaper.swp is associated with a file created by the taskpaper plugin. Taskpaper files have the extent 'taskpaper'.

> Either you're editing a file in Vim that you already have open in another Vim, you had a Vim instance crash while editing that file before (but probably not, because you *said* you deleted the swap file), or you have a plugin creating swap files when it probably should not be.
>
> Try disabling plugins by launching Vim with the --noplugin option. If the problem goes away it might be a plugin. The name of the swapfile might give a hint as to which one.

As reported in my initial response, I found the there were two other instances of vim running along with macvim. Since deleting the swap files at the weird location [/var/tmp/] and shutting down the two other instances of vim I no longer get "swap exists."

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Eric Weir
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