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Reputation: 1502

Disable Swap File Generation in Cygwin

I'm getting pretty annoyed of vim automatically generating swap files when I press control-z. Is there any way to disable this feature (and not just delete them)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 411

Answers (1)

nickspoon
nickspoon

Reputation: 1397

Put this in your .vimrc:

set noswapfile

Edit: You could also consider moving backup files to a location where they won't get in your way. I have this in my .vimrc:

set noswapfile
" Alternatively, store your swap files in your local .vim folder
" call system('mkdir ~/.vim/swap')
" set dir=~/.vim/swap/

if has('persistent_undo')
  set undolevels=5000
  call system('mkdir ~/.vim/undo')
  set undodir=~/.vim/undo
  set undofile
endif

call system('mkdir ~/.vim/backups')
set backupdir=~/.vim/backups/

" The 'n' here is a prefix specifying which viminfo property is being set -
" in this case, the Name of the viminfo file.
" :h 'viminfo'
set viminfo+=n~/.vim/viminfo

I really like the persistent undo, meaning even after quitting vim, restarting the computer etc., you can just undo/redo changes from previous sessions.

Note that if you are using both console vim under Cygwin and windows gvim, you'll need to wrap all of this in an if v:progname != "gvim.exe" block, since windows won't understand paths like ~/.vim. I have this section duplicated in my _gvim file using windows paths, for the odd occasion where I use gvim.

Upvotes: 1

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