 Tip #1393: Automatically create/set tmp or backup directories
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November 22, 2006 8:51 |
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Clayton |
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I needed a way to automate creating the backup/tmp directories. It is especially annoying when I am in a new environment and I have to manually create the directories. I also prefer to use _vim rather then .vim on a Windows system so it checks for that. Hopefully I've discovered all the bugs.
function InitBackupDir()
if has('win32') || has('win32unix') "windows/cygwin
let separator = "_"
else
let separator = "."
endif
let parent = $HOME .'/' . separator . 'vim/'
let backup = parent . 'backup/'
let tmp = parent . 'tmp/'
if exists("*mkdir")
if !isdirectory(parent)
call mkdir(parent)
endif
if !isdirectory(backup)
call mkdir(backup)
endif
if !isdirectory(tmp)
call mkdir(tmp)
endif
endif
let missing_dir = 0
if isdirectory(tmp)
execute 'set backupdir=' . escape(backup, " ") . "/,."
else
let missing_dir = 1
endif
if isdirectory(backup)
execute 'set directory=' . escape(tmp, " ") . "/,."
else
let missing_dir = 1
endif
if missing_dir
echo "Warning: Unable to create backup directories: " . backup ." and " . tmp
echo "Try: mkdir -p " . backup
echo "and: mkdir -p " . tmp
set backupdir=.
set directory=.
endif
endfunction
call InitBackupDir()
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[email protected],
November 23, 2006 8:17
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Of corse using just one backup/swapfile directory will mean that the following command won't work any more:
vimdiff old/foe.txt new/foe.txt
especialy if you need to merge/change both ways.
that's why in vimscript#1537 I use local directorys. But the "set directory=" might be a worthy addition to my script.
Martin.
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Anonymous,
November 28, 2006 6:31
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actually, that command does work and it won't clobber the file, in :h directory
" - For Unix and Win32, if a directory ends in two path separators, the
swap file name will be built from the complete path to the file
with all path separators substituted to percent '%' signs. This will
ensure file name uniqueness in the preserve directory."
example swap files in ~/.vim/tmp:
%home%user%tmp2%test1.txt.swp %home%user%tmp%test1.txt.swp
maybe you can clarify if I am misunderstanding what you're saying. in a test I did, even without having the extra slash it will have two different swap files called test.txt.swp and test.txt.swo.
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