I don't want to have to remember to periodically purge the backup files. And I don't want the backups to string on forever and fill my harddrive.
In actual practice, I would set savevers_max to 100 or 1000. The backup function would be running and I wouldn't ever have to think about it, other then when I need to access old data. I also want it out of site, thus the questions about having one backup directory and the need to make file names unique. -----Original Message----- From: Yakov Lerner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:39 AM To: Waters, Bill Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: savevers plugin On 5/3/07, Waters, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking at using the savevers plugin. I don't think it does > exactly what I am looking for. Why don't you set savevers_max to 999999999 ? Do you plan to have more than 999999999 versions ? (if I underdtand your request right). Otherwise, your request sounds strange. It sounds like this: "I want to set savevers_max to 3, and I want savevers to ignore this". It's like "I want vim to go to line 10 when I tell him to go to line 5". Why would you want to set savevers_max to wrong value instead of desired value (9999999) in the first place ? Yakov > I want the old version of my file to be > saved regardless of what savevers_max is set to. If I set savevers_max > to three and I save for the fourth time, I want the oldest, saved > version of the file to be deleted and I want my latest last-version to > be saved. > > My files would go from this... > > -rw-r----- 1 eralston admin 226 Sep 20 11:43 test.txt > -rw-r----- 1 eralston admin 102 Sep 20 11:12 test.txt.0001.clean > -rw-r----- 1 eralston admin 106 Sep 20 11:14 test.txt.0002.clean > -rw-r----- 1 eralston admin 132 Sep 20 11:22 test.txt.0003.clean > > To this... > > -rw-r----- 1 eralston admin 226 Sep 20 11:43 test.txt > -rw-r----- 1 eralston admin 106 Sep 20 11:14 test.txt.0002.clean > -rw-r----- 1 eralston admin 132 Sep 20 11:22 test.txt.0003.clean > -rw-r----- 1 eralston admin 148 Sep 20 11:34 test.txt.0004.clean > > Anyway to do this? Anybody already hacked savevers to do this? Or have > some clever mappings to handle this? > > A related question... is there a way to use a single backup directory > for all files? I think it would need to have a way to make all file > names unique. So that saving /dir1/a.txt wouldn't clobber over > /dir2/a.txt. > > Thanks, > Bill >
