On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:56:59PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Jordan Lewis wrote: > > I suppose the argument could be made that the user who has added undo > > persistence to her vimrc would have read enough of the documentation to know > > that she must also set undodir if she doesn't want a polluted current > > working directory. I don't think that this argument is strong enough to > > warrant using the new default behavior, though, since a less clued-in user > > might not understand why his working directory is suddenly full of dot > > files. > > It's a bit like using backup files. The undo files are hidden (start > with a dot), thus are less intrusive. It's also like swap files, they > also go in the same directory as the file, by default. Still, when a > directory is not writable swap files need to go elsewhere. Undo files > won't be written when a file is not writable.
Are the undo files supposed to be hidden when 'undodir' is not the current directory? If so, that's not currently the case. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <james...@jamessan.com>
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