On 01/29/11 19:07, Ed Bradford wrote:
I use DropBox. I edit a file on computer "A" and FORGET to
exit vim. Now on computer "B", the .swp file prevents me from
editing. I know I can ignore and just to go computer. However,
VIM and DropBox could solve my problem by having an option to
update on 1,4,16,64,256 second intervals and abandoning the
lock file that is the .swp file. DropBox has solved the SYNC
problem. Please embrace it and make DropBox and VIM work as
people WANT, not as developer's expect.
While I suspect that's not what most vim users want, vim does
already supply the ability to live dangerously without a net if
you want. You can tweak the following options:
:help 'updatetime'
:h 'updatecount'
:h 'swapfile'
:h CursorHold
So you can instruct vim to auto-save the swap-file every N
seconds, every M keystrokes, or to not write a swap-file at all.
This does open you to the possibility of writing data you
*don't* want. You can see an example at
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Auto-save_current_buffer_periodically
Another alternative: I know a number of folks on the list
(myself included) who use vim within a session of "screen" so we
can reattach not just a running session of vim, but any console
applications from anywhere we have a SSH (or telnet, yuck)
connection to our boxes. Not quite the same, but a very powerful
tool to have in your arsenal.
As an aside, I'm not sure if English is your first language, but
your demanding "make vim work how I want, not how you want, even
though it's a rare edge-case" tone doesn't win you any points.
-tim
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