On 18/04/09 13:52, Michael Henry wrote:
[...]
> When I first started using Vim and got the 'Swap file exists' message, I
> found it very hard to understand the difference between the options
> presented. Several things were unclear to me:
>
> - If a previous Vim session crashed, did I lose any un
Ben Schmidt wrote:
> >> Adding the ability to easily diff the recovered buffer
> >> against the on-disk file (the action recommended to the user)
> >> is a valid request.
> > I'm not proposing the following as a solution, but I will
> > mention that there is a related tip:
> > http://vim.wikia.com
On 18/04/09 03:15, David C. wrote:
>
> John, believe it or not, I respect where you're coming from. Even
> though Windows XP was a vast improvement over previous (and future)
> Microsoft OS's, I agree it's still Windows, and it does suck to use
> Windows instead of Linux.
>
> But I know of 2 good
On 18/04/09 02:43, John Beckett wrote:
>
> James Vega wrote:
>> Vim creates swapfiles expressly to ease the process of
>> recovering from problems. Whether they be the power going
>> out while they were editing, or their system crashing
>> (BSOD?), or even forgetting to close their Vim session an
On 18/04/09 01:35, John Beckett wrote:
>
> David C. wrote:
>> When you attempt to open a text file that was closed
>> abnormally before, leaving a hidden .swp file, your open is
>> interrupted by something like:
>> Swap file "filename.txt.swp" already exists!
>
> Sorry, but I'm going to deliver so
On 17/04/09 19:36, David C. wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Long time user, first time caller.
>
> In this case I'm using gvim on windows xp, but I think this applies to
> most vim situations.
>
> When you attempt to open a text file that was closed abnormally
> before, leaving a hidden .swp file, you
>> Adding the ability to easily diff the recovered buffer
>> against the on-disk file (the action recommended to the user)
>> is a valid request.
> I'm not proposing the following as a solution, but I will
> mention that there is a related tip:
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Swap_file_%22...%22alread
John, believe it or not, I respect where you're coming from. Even
though Windows XP was a vast improvement over previous (and future)
Microsoft OS's, I agree it's still Windows, and it does suck to use
Windows instead of Linux.
But I know of 2 good reasons to use Windows sometimes. a) Tax
softw
James Vega wrote:
> Vim creates swapfiles expressly to ease the process of
> recovering from problems. Whether they be the power going
> out while they were editing, or their system crashing
> (BSOD?), or even forgetting to close their Vim session and
> needing to do more work from a remote conne
me too, +1 to the original feature request.
> Sorry, but I'm going to deliver some advice from a previous
> occasion when this was discussed. You really should NOT be
> seeing these errors! Your effort should be spent on finding out
> what is going wrong. If your hardware or software is crashing,
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 09:35:50AM +1000, John Beckett wrote:
> Sorry, but I'm going to deliver some advice from a previous
> occasion when this was discussed. You really should NOT be
> seeing these errors!
Vim creates swapfiles expressly to ease the process of recovering from
problems. Whether
David C. wrote:
> When you attempt to open a text file that was closed
> abnormally before, leaving a hidden .swp file, your open is
> interrupted by something like:
> Swap file "filename.txt.swp" already exists!
Sorry, but I'm going to deliver some advice from a previous
occasion when this was d
Hi everyone,
Long time user, first time caller.
In this case I'm using gvim on windows xp, but I think this applies to
most vim situations.
When you attempt to open a text file that was closed abnormally
before, leaving a hidden .swp file, your open is interrupted by
something like:
Swap file "
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