On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 1:41 AM, L A Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > I have near a dozen files where I have both a ".cc and a .h" > open but had a desktop reboot, so all have swap files now. > Just now, I opened them all and found that only 1 > pair had any changes that needed to be addressed, but the > others were all 'unmodified'. > > > Is there a way to have vim automatically delete the swap > files for which there are no changes and no running process? > > Alternative, is there a way to tell in a shell that > some correspond to unmodified files so I could pre-delete > them in restarting gvim for all the files? > > I don't want to blindly try to recover them, as any that > do have actual changes, I want to know about so I > can write them to /tmp and compare them w/the origs to > see if what the changes are and if they should be kept > (usually should, but occasionally not). > > Thanks in advance! > -linda
You could try creating an autocomand for the |SwapExists| event. Set |v:swapchoice| to one of the values mentioned in the help for that event, or to the empty string to ask the user. Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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/d/optout.
