On 2020-08-15, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Gary Johnson wrote: > > > The help entry for 'directory' doesn't say anything about the colon > > following the drive letter in the swap file name being replaced by > > a percent sign. > > > > I propose that the sentence describing the swap file name > > construction be changed from > > > > - For Unix and Win32, if a directory ends in two path separators "//", > > the swap file name will be built from the complete path to the file > > with all path separators substituted to percent '%' signs. > > > > to > > > > - For Unix and Win32, if a directory ends in two path separators "//", > > the swap file name will be built from the complete path to the file > > with the colon following the drive letter on Win32 and all path > > separators replaced by percent '%' signs. > > > > I also improved the grammar. A patch based on 8.2.1462 is attached. > > Thanks. Starting the sentence mentioning the colon for Win32 makes it a > bit long. Since the colon is a specific instance of the path separator, > I think it reads a bit easier like this: > > - For Unix and Win32, if a directory ends in two path separators "//", > the swap file name will be built from the complete path to the file > with all path separators replaced by percent '%' signs (including > the colon following the drive letter on Win32). This will ensure > file name uniqueness in the preserve directory.
That works. Regards, Gary -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/20200815210936.GB20476%40phoenix.
