On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, John Little wrote:
>
> > I would like to have date.time stamped backups.
> >
> > How is that done within vim?
>
> This is the script I use presently:
>
> function! StampBackup()
> let bup = globpath(&backupdir, expand('%:t') . &bex)
>
> [...]
>
> The obvious deficiency is that information about the location of the
> edited file is not kept, so if you have the same name in use in
> several places (f. ex. Makefile) it's problematic telling them apart.
I like the way the 'directory' option with a value ending in // handles
that:
e.g. I have:
set directory=~/.vim-tmp//
And in that directory I get files like:
%home%bhaskell%some%directory%filename.pl.swp
A similar name scheme could work here, too:
instead of:
> let bup = globpath(&backupdir, expand('%:t') . &bex)
how about:
let bup = globpath(&backupdir, substitute(expand(%:p),'/','%','g').&bex)
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Best,
Ben
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