Re: swapfile name
On 3/17/07, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raphael Bauduin wrote: On 3/16/07, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raphael Bauduin wrote: Hi, When opening a file, is there a way to tell vim which name to use for the swapfile? I'm writing a little vim config file to edit a CMS' content in a DB. Each page has a parts named 'body', which the script makes available through :Radiant edit pages/Home Page/body or, for another page: :Radiant edit pages/Home Page/Articles/First Post/body The problem is that vim is using the same swapfile due to the last part of the path being body in both cases. I see 2 solutions to this problem: either use no swapfile (resetting swapfile), or specify another name for the swapfile, with a preference for the latter. I can specify the directory where to put swapfiles, but can I specify a name for the swapfile? Or can I set a swapfile directory specific to a buffer? Thanks in advance for your help. Raph IIUC, you can't specify the swapfile name; but (again, IIUC) the default is to write the swapfile in the same directory as the editfile: so you would have pages/Home Page/.body.swp and pages/Home Page/Articles/First Post/.body.swp which are different files by virtue of being located in diferent directories. The swapfile used is .body.swp , it doesn't seem to create the directories. I set directory=/tmp/ and the swapfile used is /tmp/body.swp . That's the problem. If you set the swapfile to always be written to a fixed directory, there will be collisions. If 'directory' starts with . (as in the default), Vim will attempt to create the swapfile in the same directory as the editfile. There will be no need to create the directory since it already contains the file you're editing, and for the same reason it should be writable. This directory doesn't exist as the path is in fact mapped to a database (see http://www.raphinou.com/radiant.vim/ , I'll post a new release today). However, it works fine when I create the directory. Thanks for your help on this! Raph PS: I saw after sending my previous mail I had mistakenly done a 'Reply' rather than 'Reply all'. Thanks for having redirected the discussion on the ML. Mistakes do happen snip -- Web database: http://www.myowndb.com Free Software Developers Meeting: http://www.fosdem.org
Re: swapfile name
Raphael Bauduin wrote: On 3/16/07, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raphael Bauduin wrote: Hi, When opening a file, is there a way to tell vim which name to use for the swapfile? I'm writing a little vim config file to edit a CMS' content in a DB. Each page has a parts named 'body', which the script makes available through :Radiant edit pages/Home Page/body or, for another page: :Radiant edit pages/Home Page/Articles/First Post/body The problem is that vim is using the same swapfile due to the last part of the path being body in both cases. I see 2 solutions to this problem: either use no swapfile (resetting swapfile), or specify another name for the swapfile, with a preference for the latter. I can specify the directory where to put swapfiles, but can I specify a name for the swapfile? Or can I set a swapfile directory specific to a buffer? Thanks in advance for your help. Raph IIUC, you can't specify the swapfile name; but (again, IIUC) the default is to write the swapfile in the same directory as the editfile: so you would have pages/Home Page/.body.swp and pages/Home Page/Articles/First Post/.body.swp which are different files by virtue of being located in diferent directories. The swapfile used is .body.swp , it doesn't seem to create the directories. I set directory=/tmp/ and the swapfile used is /tmp/body.swp . That's the problem. If you set the swapfile to always be written to a fixed directory, there will be collisions. If 'directory' starts with . (as in the default), Vim will attempt to create the swapfile in the same directory as the editfile. There will be no need to create the directory since it already contains the file you're editing, and for the same reason it should be writable. Remember the path is not the path to a real file, it's a path used by an autocommand to find the data in a db. so, where does your database reside? There is something I don't understand. If your user-commands creates a buffer with a nonexistent path, then maybe the path part of the buffer name should be changed. Raph The advantage of having the swap in the same directory as the editfile, is that it can always be spotted if you try to edit the same file in two instances of Vim at the same time, or to reopen a file which wasn't properly closed because of a crash. Best regards, Tony. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 118. You are on a first-name basis with your ISP's staff. Next time, please use Reply to All (or Reply to List if available), not Reply to Sender, and please don't use top-posting either. It seems to me I've been writing this in at least one reply per day for a week. Don't you people read what comes in your inbox? Best regards, Tony. -- It's better to be wanted for murder that not to be wanted at all. -- Marty Winch
swapfile name
Hi, When opening a file, is there a way to tell vim which name to use for the swapfile? I'm writing a little vim config file to edit a CMS' content in a DB. Each page has a parts named 'body', which the script makes available through :Radiant edit pages/Home Page/body or, for another page: :Radiant edit pages/Home Page/Articles/First Post/body The problem is that vim is using the same swapfile due to the last part of the path being body in both cases. I see 2 solutions to this problem: either use no swapfile (resetting swapfile), or specify another name for the swapfile, with a preference for the latter. I can specify the directory where to put swapfiles, but can I specify a name for the swapfile? Or can I set a swapfile directory specific to a buffer? Thanks in advance for your help. Raph -- Web database: http://www.myowndb.com Free Software Developers Meeting: http://www.fosdem.org
Re: swapfile name
Raphael Bauduin wrote: Hi, When opening a file, is there a way to tell vim which name to use for the swapfile? I'm writing a little vim config file to edit a CMS' content in a DB. Each page has a parts named 'body', which the script makes available through :Radiant edit pages/Home Page/body or, for another page: :Radiant edit pages/Home Page/Articles/First Post/body The problem is that vim is using the same swapfile due to the last part of the path being body in both cases. I see 2 solutions to this problem: either use no swapfile (resetting swapfile), or specify another name for the swapfile, with a preference for the latter. I can specify the directory where to put swapfiles, but can I specify a name for the swapfile? Or can I set a swapfile directory specific to a buffer? Thanks in advance for your help. Raph IIUC, you can't specify the swapfile name; but (again, IIUC) the default is to write the swapfile in the same directory as the editfile: so you would have pages/Home Page/.body.swp and pages/Home Page/Articles/First Post/.body.swp which are different files by virtue of being located in diferent directories. The advantage of having the swap in the same directory as the editfile, is that it can always be spotted if you try to edit the same file in two instances of Vim at the same time, or to reopen a file which wasn't properly closed because of a crash. Best regards, Tony. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 118. You are on a first-name basis with your ISP's staff.
