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author | Jan Edmund Lazo <jan.lazo@mail.utoronto.ca> | 2021-05-04 19:18:16 -0400 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-05-04 19:18:16 -0400 |
commit | 4ad30f775e5564c539324b4818886f067d2ecd99 (patch) | |
tree | 97a554379bda7e5fc77e58c690db3f5a72db8c74 /runtime/doc/recover.txt | |
parent | 63d8a8f4e8b02e524d85aed08aa16c5d9815598c (diff) | |
parent | d5b063aec1db95704b37a77fdbd968cb6b48cc3b (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #14424 from janlazo/vim-8.1.1726
vim-patch:8.1.1726,8.2.{296,860,1827,2388,2788,2790,2801}
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diff --git a/runtime/doc/recover.txt b/runtime/doc/recover.txt index 7789d4bdbc..9ef5a37452 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/recover.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/recover.txt @@ -56,13 +56,13 @@ Disadvantages: directories (although Vim tries to avoid that by comparing the path name). This will result in bogus ATTENTION warning messages. - When you use your home directory, and somebody else tries to edit the same - file, he will not see your swap file and will not get the ATTENTION warning - message. + file, that user will not see your swap file and will not get the ATTENTION + warning message. If you want to put swap files in a fixed place, put a command resembling the following ones in your vimrc: :set dir=~/tmp (for Unix) - :set dir=c:\\tmp (for Windows) + :set dir=c:\\tmp (for Win32) This is also very handy when editing files on floppy. Of course you will have to create that "tmp" directory for this to work! @@ -106,8 +106,9 @@ If you want to make sure that your changes are in the swap file use this command: *:pre* *:preserve* *E313* *E314* -:pre[serve] Write all text for all buffers into swap file. The - original file is no longer needed for recovery. +:pre[serve] Write all text for the current buffer into its swap + file. The original file is no longer needed for + recovery. This sets a flag in the current buffer. A Vim swap file can be recognized by the first six characters: "b0VIM ". After that comes the version number, e.g., "3.0". |