Tony Mechelynck wrote:
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.
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Thanks Tony, but that doesn't sound very "automatic"... ;-/.
On top of that, say I create an autocmd, how do I tell which
value to choose? I only would want to have them removed if
they were unmodified AND if they were not currently being
edited by an active process.
Maybe a different question: Why doesn't vim clean up
junk left over from a crash -- i.e. swp files that don't hold
any changes and that are not locks from another, active process?
I find such messages "confusing" and slowing down my work, since
I have to bother looking at each of 10-20 messages and making
some decision.
Is there a reason why vim doesn't clean up its unnecessary
"junk" files that, _clearly_ hold no useful information (i.e.
no changes, and are not locks for active processes)?
Why wouldn't that be regarded as a bug?
Thanks!
Linda
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