Re: Switch off .swp-files and backup files only when editing a certain file

On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:26:53 AM UTC+5:30, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2014-02-12, meino cramer wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> >
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> > I want to swicth off vim (good!) behaviour of creating a backup file
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> > (*~) and a swap file (*.swp) in way, that they not only will created
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> > and deleted afterwards, but the should not created in first place at
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> > all.
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> > ....and this should only happen, when a cerain file (path+filename as
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> > identification) will be edited.
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> >
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> > Background:
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> > The certain file is the configuration file of a small embedded device,
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> > which I can mount like an usbstick.
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> > If I will forget to delete those files afterwards, I will screw up
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> > this little thing.
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> >
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> > How can I do this?
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> For the backup file, you can add the path to your file to the
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> 'backupskip' option.
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> For the swapfile, you just need to reset 'swapfile' in the buffer
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> containing your file. I think the following will work.
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> au BufNewFile,BufRead /path/to/your/file setlocal noswapfile
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> Note that I have not tested any of that. I just read some help
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> entries and it seems like those ought to work. See
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> :help 'backupskip'
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> :help 'swapfile'
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>
> Regards,
>
> Gary

This might be useful http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=89

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