Re: Finding the recovered swap name

On Do, 07 Dez 2017, Gary Johnson wrote:

> If I try to recover a file using the :recover command and there is
> more than one swap file for that file, Vim presents a list of "Swap
> files found" and asks me to "Enter number of swap file to use".
> Vim then suggests that I "may want to delete the .swp file now." To
> do that, I have to write down or remember which swap file I chose so
> that I can delete the right one when I've verified the recovered
> file's contents.
>
> Is there some way to have Vim tell me which swap file it used to
> recover the current file?

No and even worse, even if one does :au SwapExists :let
b:swapname=v:swapname it looks like it will always contain the first
swapfile found, not the one actually selected.

Christian
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