Gary Johnson wrote:
> While reading the discussion of "Security risk of vim swap files,"
> I decided to review where my swap files were being saved and
> discovered that my 'directory' setting was not being obeyed.
>
> My 'directory' contains a list of directory names, all ending in
> "//" on Unix. All the names beginning with "~" were being ignored,
> even though they were writable. I tried finding a simple case to
> illustrate the problem and discovered that the results depend on
> whether I set 'directory' with :set or :let.
>
> My home directory contains a tmp directory writable by me.
>
> $ cd
> $ ls -ld tmp
> drwxr-xr-x 8 gary gary 8192 Nov 6 10:48 tmp
>
> Case 1: let
>
> $ vim -N -u NONE -i NONE --cmd 'let &directory="~/tmp,/tmp"' foo
> :set directory?
> directory=~/tmp,/tmp
> :swapname
> /tmp/foo.swp
>
> Case 2: set
>
> $ vim -N -u NONE -i NONE --cmd 'set directory=~/tmp,/tmp' foo
> :set directory?
> directory=~/tmp,/tmp
> :swapname
> /home/gary/tmp/foo.swp
>
> I see no difference between the values of 'directory' whether :set
> or :let, yet the tilde is expanded correctly when 'directory' is :set
> and apparently not expanded when 'directory' is :let.
>
> I'm running Vim 8.0.1257 on a system running Red Hat Linux
> Enterprise Linux 7.2.
Instead of:
:set directory?
Try this:
:echo &directory
And you'll see what happens.
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