Re: Finding the recovered swap name

Christian Brabandt wrote:

> 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.

I thought it mentioned "using swap file xxx".

We can mention the name again later.

Hmm, the hit-enter prompt is in the wrong place, let me fix that as
well.

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