Hi Matt! On Mi, 02 Mär 2011, Matt Martini wrote:
> Is it possible to change the name of the swap file that Vim uses? > > I have just started using a centralized location for swapfiles with the > 'directory' option. However, I am running into a problem of name space > collision, or lack of same. > > Often I edit files with the same name in different directories. Vim allows > this and has no problem creating two different swap files in the same dir. > However, this can cause a problem in a crash. > > Example: > 1) editing /a/x.txt and /b/x.txt (directory set to .../swap) > 2) vim creates .../swap/x.txt.swp (for /a/x.txt) > and .../swap/x.txt.swo (for /b/x.txt) > 3) normally this is fine and vim tracks which swap file is for > which file. > 4) vim crash (for whatever reason) > 5) now we try to edit /a/x.txt and vim sees x.txt.swp and prompts to > recover, good as expected. > 6) We save the file and delete x.txt.swp > 7) now we edit /b/x.txt, vim looks in .../swap and does not see > x.txt.swp (it does not know to look for x.txt.swo which is the > correct swap for the file being edited) and happily lets you > edit the corrupted file <-- FAIL > > What I would like to do is create a function to prepend a dir "hash" to > the name of the swap file so that even in the scenario above the files > would have unique swap file names and this problem would be averted. > > My idea is to use the first letter of each segment of the path of the > file prepended to the swap file name (ex: swap files from above would be > a_x.txt.swp and b_x.txt.swp, editing /foo/bar/baz.txt would use the swap > file fb_baz.txt.swp) While fairly simplistic this would resolve the > problem in most cases. > > Before I start wring this function, I want to know if it is even possible > to change the name of the swap file. Also, ideally I would want to keep > the original vim functionality of .swp .swo .swn .swm ... for reediting > the same file. See :h 'isdirectory' and look for the item that starts with: - For Unix and Win32, if a directory ends in two path separators "//" regards, Christian -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
