On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:26:53 AM UTC+5:30, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2014-02-12, meino cramer wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I want to swicth off vim (good!) behaviour of creating a backup file > > > (*~) and a swap file (*.swp) in way, that they not only will created > > > and deleted afterwards, but the should not created in first place at > > > all. > > > ....and this should only happen, when a cerain file (path+filename as > > > identification) will be edited. > > > > > > Background: > > > The certain file is the configuration file of a small embedded device, > > > which I can mount like an usbstick. > > > If I will forget to delete those files afterwards, I will screw up > > > this little thing. > > > > > > How can I do this? > > > > For the backup file, you can add the path to your file to the > > 'backupskip' option. > > > > For the swapfile, you just need to reset 'swapfile' in the buffer > > containing your file. I think the following will work. > > > > au BufNewFile,BufRead /path/to/your/file setlocal noswapfile > > > > Note that I have not tested any of that. I just read some help > > entries and it seems like those ought to work. See > > > > :help 'backupskip' > > :help 'swapfile' > > > > Regards, > > Gary
This might be useful http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=89 -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
