Hi Christian,
Christian Brabandt <[email protected]>:
> Am 2015-02-12 08:46, schrieb Jan Larres:
>> I am currently writing a plugin to handle existing swapfiles in a smart
>> way. Unfortunately there is not much information about existing swapfiles
>> directly available to plugins; as far as I can see only the filename is
>> through the
>> v:swapname variable. Everything else that may be relevant like the pid of
>> the process that is currently using the swapfile, or whether the file has
>> been modified since the last swapfile update, does not have similar
>> functionality to access it.
>>
>> The information is available in the output of "vim -r", but this requires
>> spawing a new Vim process and parsing the output manually. It would be
>> handy if this information were available for example with a function that
>> takes a filename as an argument and returns a dictionary with all of the
>> relevant information. If possible and available it could also return the
>> servername of the appropriate Vim instance to help with sending commands to
>> it.
>
> That is not currently possible and parsing the vim -r output is what the
> https://github.com/chrisbra/Recover.vim plugin does.
I know, that's why I was suggesting it would be a good idea to add it :)
-Jan
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