Re: Moving a file

Sorry for the late reply (to my own thread).

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 1:36 PM, John Passaro <john.a.passaro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Vim normally offers a pretty lightweight bit of change detection and I think
> Shawn was only asking how to apply that to a new filename. In that context,
> ":saveas" seems to work:
>
> $ vim a
> :saveas b
> :! echo hello >> b
> W11: Warning: File "b" has changed since editing started
>

Yes, this is exactly what I meant, and yeah :saveas was what I was
looking for - thank y'all and sorry for the confusion.

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> On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 12:42 PM, <arocker@vex.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Shawn, what is it you're trying to do, exactly? The two parts of your
>> > question ("changing which file a buffer points to" and "get notified
>> > when a file is externally modified") are unrelated in vim.
>> >
>>
>> This is a vim-related list, but this does raise the question of whether
>> vim is even the appropriate tool? It sounds like some some sort of
>> monitoring effort.
>>
>> Vim is wonderful for a human creating or updating a text, then going away
>> to do something else. Operations involving multiple files, intermittent or
>> unpredictable events, and other situations fit other programs better.
>>
>> The programs in the *nix tool chest are all powerful and flexible. As a
>> result, sufficiently dedicated perversity can bend almost all of them to
>> do jobs wildly different from their designers' intentions. (Video games
>> written in sed, for example:https://github.com/aureliojargas/sokoban.sed
>> .) Just because it's possible doesn't make it advisable.
>>
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