Re: vim reporting a swap file

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:10:36 +0100, Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it> wrote:
> Each time I try editing my ~/todo.txt file vim (kvim) reports the
> existance of a todo.txt.swp file which a sudo find / -name todo.txt.swp
> cannot find ...

look for .todo.txt.swp
the swap file name begins with a dot.

Furthermore, the swap file has to be deleted manually. Unless you do
that, vim will always report about the presence of swap file.

Here is what I do
1) store the actual file with a different name
2) recover the file when vim prompts the existence of swap file
3) diff actual_file new_file
4) remove swap file (and delete duplicate files)

For more details, use
:h recovery.txt
in the vim window.

raju

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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
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