Sometimes, when vim or the host OS crashes with many open files, .swp files are left scattered throughout the system. Currently, I locate all the .swp files and manually open the corresponding original files in vim so that I'm prompted with the option to recover what's in the .swp. 90% of the time, the recovered file is identical to the original, and 5% of the time, the recovered file is empty. In both these cases, I simply discard the .swp.
Is there a way (or are there any tools) to automate this highly manual recovery process? I.e., given a set of .swp files, for each one compare the recovered file with the original and discard the swp if it's useless (leaving in place the ones that could not be automatically pruned out)? -- Yang Zhang http://www.mit.edu/~y_z/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
