Thursday, November 5, 2020

Re: .swp files

Hello Kevin,

I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your work. But potentially it is not Vim's problem. Vim is a text editor, not a back-up software. It is our responsibility to back-up work and organise those back-up files. To my mind Vim is already doing a great job in saving all your "historic" edits in temporary files.

Best wishes,
Maxim

Maxim Abalenkov \\ maxim.abalenkov@gmail.com
+44 7 486 486 505 \\ http://mabalenk.gitlab.io

On 5 Nov 2020, at 13:44, Kevin Reynolds <reykevster@gmail.com> wrote:

God Damned Vim.
It keeps trashing my files.  I just lost a file that included everything I did in 2019 for some unknown reason.  I open up the file and vim tells me it's already open.  So I recover it, and 90% of it is gone.  This is not the first time either.  God Damn vim.  I like vim but I will never use it again.  It keeps trashing my files.  God Damn you!

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