oh yeah, that's right! thanks! ...except 3. :) -- I copied over the undodir and now I "inherited" all historical persist undo in the new machine for all files! - except for those I have changed again in local PC before copying over the undodir...
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday, April 19, 2014 11:20:29 AM UTC-5, ping wrote: > > I recently copied over a bunch of files to another machine and realized > I missed all of the backup files (for persistent undo). > > > > > > I managed to find out the "backupdir" and copied them over also, still I > can't undo, I think I use the same folder path on both machines... > > > > > > > > any thought? > > > > A few thoughts, actually: > > 1. Why are you calling the undo files "backup files"? Those are two > different things. > 2. Why do you think "backupdir" is for undo files? It isn't. That would be > "undodir". > 3. Persistent undo really, really, REALLY isn't meant for syncing undo > information between machines, login names, or users. You aren't trying to > do that, right? If you are, you should STOP now and look into Mercurial or > Git or even something like Subversion. > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
