On 2017-12-09, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Gary Johnson wrote: > > > If I try to recover a file using the :recover command and there is > > more than one swap file for that file, Vim presents a list of "Swap > > files found" and asks me to "Enter number of swap file to use". > > Vim then suggests that I "may want to delete the .swp file now." To > > do that, I have to write down or remember which swap file I chose so > > that I can delete the right one when I've verified the recovered > > file's contents. > > > > Is there some way to have Vim tell me which swap file it used to > > recover the current file? > > I usually edit the file again and at the "existing swap file prompt" > select "D" for delete. If there are multiple I suppose only the one you > used is relevant and all others can be deleted as well?
I my case, I often open a couple of vim or gvim instances and use them for taking notes, without saving any of the buffers to files. When I'm done with each of them, I just quit Vim and I don't have to clean up any files. However, every now and then, the machine I'm using goes down or is taken down without warning, and I need to recover the buffers I had open. So I start vim or gvim, execute :recover and am presented with a list of swap files found with names like %home%gary.swn %home%gary.swo %home%gary.swp I open each one and see if I need to keep the contents. Then, whether or not I want to keep one, I have to delete its swap file. But which one? Yes, I could just pay close attention and remember which swap file I opened in which window, and remember the swap directory used on that particular machine, but it would be so nice to be able to write a command like :DeleteSwap and have it just know the swap directory (that I can do) and the swap file name and just do it without me having to think. Regards, Gary -- -- 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.