On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Tony Mechelynck < antoine.mechely...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24/05/10 22:30, Jordan Lewis wrote: > [...] > > I am a bit concerned with your decision to write undo files to the >> current directory by default, though. I think that it is "impolite" to >> users to have Vim store its state (especially at the >> 1-statefile-per-file rate that undo persistence uses) directly in the >> user's working directory. It makes more sense to me to use an undo >> directory within ~/.vim by default. If that fails, then the right thing >> to do would be to go ahead and write in the file's directory since, as >> you mentioned, it is likely to succeed. >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> - Jordan Lewis >> > > The default Bram chose is not the "current" directory (as of :cd or :lcd) > but the directory of the file. The advantage of this choice is that you > could quite possibly have files of the same name (e.g. Makefile) in > different directories, and with a common 'undodir', undofiles for all those > identically-named files would overwrite each other. Placing undofiles in the > directory of the file makes sure that the undofiles for vim73/Makefile, > vim73/src/Makefile, vim73/src/po/Makefile and vim73/src/testdir/Makefile > won't destroy each other. > > > Best regards, > Tony. I should have worded my post better - I did mean the directory of the file as you indicate. And the patch doesn't blindly name all undo files the same if they have the same filename - with a common undo directory, the files will be named path_to_vim73_Makefile.un~, path_to_vim73_src_Makefile.un~, etc. - Jordan -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
