On 5/2/06, John Player <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I did , too. File is in disk cache in both cases. In 1st case,
> file opens imemdiately. In 2nd case, it takes time. I suspect
> that for unlisted+hidden files, vim keeps swapfile open which is
> what helps him open file immediately without using RAM.
> Using :!ls I see that indeed in 1st case, .swp file exists,
> and in 2nd case, there is no swapfile.

You may be right -- I don't use the swapfile so I don't see
the difference.  That still means that the help is incorrect.

Without connection to the original topic, I wonder
what are reasons for you not using swapfile ?

Yakov

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