On Thu, August 11, 2011 11:49 pm, Gary Johnson wrote:
> Unfortunately the same feature does not exist yet for backup
> files. It's still an item in the todo list, but at least it's in
> the "known bugs and current work" section, so maybe it's coming
> soon.
I made the patch last year. I think, wh
On Aug 11, 5:49 pm, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2011-08-11, cyboman wrote:
> > i set my backup and swap directories to
>
> > ~\vimfiles\data\swap
> > ~\vimfiles\data\backup
>
> > however at my work i very often have to edit two different revisions
> > of the same project, meaning that quite often i
On Aug 12, 9:49 am, Gary Johnson wrote:
> In the mean time, you may want to turn off the 'backup' option and
> create your own backups using a BufRead autocommand ...
Or use the BufWritePost event to rename the backup that has just been
created. I sometimes do that to put a time stamp in the ba
On 2011-08-11, cyboman wrote:
> i set my backup and swap directories to
>
> ~\vimfiles\data\swap
> ~\vimfiles\data\backup
>
> however at my work i very often have to edit two different revisions
> of the same project, meaning that quite often i have vim open two
> files in different directories w
On Aug 12, 9:17 am, cyboman wrote:
> i set my backup and swap directories to ...
What you ask can be done with autocommands, but maybe it would be
simpler to use (from :help 'dir'):
- For Unix and Win32, if a directory ends in two path separators "//"
or "\\", the swap file n
i set my backup and swap directories to
~\vimfiles\data\swap
~\vimfiles\data\backup
however at my work i very often have to edit two different revisions
of the same project, meaning that quite often i have vim open two
files in different directories with the same name. because of the my
setting f
