Hi,

thank you for all the help!
Will try it out!

Best regards,
mcc



justrajdeep <[email protected]> [14-02-13 02:44]:
> 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
> 
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