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diff --git a/runtime/doc/recover.txt b/runtime/doc/recover.txt index 8eded487c0..eba5f162de 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/recover.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/recover.txt @@ -64,10 +64,8 @@ following ones in your vimrc: This is also very handy when editing files on floppy. Of course you will have to create that "tmp" directory for this to work! -For read-only files, a swap file is not used. Unless the file is big, causing -the amount of memory used to be higher than given with 'maxmem' or -'maxmemtot'. And when making a change to a read-only file, the swap file is -created anyway. +For read-only files, a swap file is not used right away. The swap file is +created only when making changes. The 'swapfile' option can be reset to avoid creating a swapfile. And the |:noswapfile| modifier can be used to not create a swapfile for a new buffer. |