Re: Editing files on Google Drive

Benjamin Fritz wrote:

> I recently started using Google Drive more extensively at work, and was
> happy to be able to edit some text files at home, hoping to see them at
> work later.
>
> But when my work computer synced, it actually got a new copy of the file
> for every time I saved in Vim, probably due to 'backupcopy' creating a new
> file and renaming it rather than overwriting the old file:
> https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/drive/Yjmkd4nbhw4/WOhRazY3gc8J
>
> I THOUGHT I could set 'backupcopy' in a BufRead/BufNewFile autocmd based on
> the location of the file I'm editing; but actually it looks like it's a
> global option. I want to get the benefits of "auto"/"no" documented in
> :help 'backupcopy' but I want to make sure my Google Drive docs get
> overwritten instead of copied to work around Google being careless with
> sync. Is there an easy way to do this? Maybe using BufEnter or BufWritePre?
> Will I risk bad side effects if I do that?

The 'backupcopy' option should be global-local. Perhaps someone can
make a patch for that?

Can the directory tree that is under Google Drive be recognized in some
way? The we could make the "auto" value do the right thing.

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