Vissale Neang wrote:
> I have a tag file of 17 Mo, when I run a vimgrep on this file and
> after a cancel during the search (with CTRL-C), it seems that the swap
> file created by vimgrep is not deleted.
> If I repeat the operation, another swap file is created with the
> extension .swo and if I repeat the operation again a new swap file is
> created with the extension .swm and so on.
>
> However there is no problem if the tag file is open in vim, new swap
> files are not created.
>
> Is it a normal behaviour?
>
> I am on Windows XP with Vim 7.0g
I guess that you press CTRL-C while Vim is still loading the file. The
buffer is then marked as modified and will be hidden instead of wiped out.
":ls!" should show the buffer as hidden.
When you exit Vim the swap files disappear, right?
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