Re: Finding the recovered swap name

On 2017-12-09, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> 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?
>
> I usually edit the file again and at the "existing swap file prompt"
> select "D" for delete. If there are multiple I suppose only the one you
> used is relevant and all others can be deleted as well?

I my case, I often open a couple of vim or gvim instances and use
them for taking notes, without saving any of the buffers to files.
When I'm done with each of them, I just quit Vim and I don't have to
clean up any files. However, every now and then, the machine I'm
using goes down or is taken down without warning, and I need to
recover the buffers I had open. So I start vim or gvim, execute
:recover and am presented with a list of swap files found with names
like

%home%gary.swn
%home%gary.swo
%home%gary.swp

I open each one and see if I need to keep the contents. Then,
whether or not I want to keep one, I have to delete its swap file.
But which one? Yes, I could just pay close attention and remember
which swap file I opened in which window, and remember the swap
directory used on that particular machine, but it would be so nice
to be able to write a command like :DeleteSwap and have it just know
the swap directory (that I can do) and the swap file name and just
do it without me having to think.

Regards,
Gary

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