Re: Removing junk .swp files

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 2:12:58 PM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote:
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> Such .swp files should never exist if you always exit Vim normally.
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> Only when Vim crashes or gets terminated abnormally will you have such files hanging around.
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Also there may be swap files associated with a DIFFERENT Vim instance, especially if you or others edit files on a network location using Vim from multiple computers.

Deleting them automatically might interfere with other Vim instances. I think you will always want a confirmation step at least before deleting swap files.

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