Re: vim scp and a local swap file

On 2017-02-06, Charles E Campbell wrote:
> Neil Watson wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > The other day I was editing a remote file via scp when my client machine
> > crashed. Had the file been local there would have been a swap file to recover
> > unsaved changes. Is it possible to have local swap file for a remote file?
> >
> There should be a local swap file; right now I don't have scp available
> for me to test, although I plan on getting my laptop and desktop to
> start playing together sometime (got to figure my way around the
> security firewalls, etc). It might be in /tmp.

I just tried a couple of experiments, editing an existing remote
file using scp.

$ vim scp://hostname/hello.txt
:swapname
No swap file

Netrw is v162h.

$ vim -N -u NORC scp://hostname/hello.txt
:swapname
No swap file
:verbose set swapfile?
noswapfile
Last set from /usr/share/vim/vim80/autoload/netrw.vim

Netrw is v156.

There are several places in autoload/netrw.vim where :nowapfile
appears. I didn't try to find out which was being executed or why.

Regards,
Gary

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