Bug#383109: vim-perl: Swap files not released on file close
Stefano Zacchiroli
zack at bononia.it
Thu Aug 24 00:57:54 UTC 2006
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:35:55AM +1200, Srdjan wrote:
> > Do you mean "abandoned" (using vim's manual terminology), that happens
> > for instance when you ":e" a file while editing another one (in this
> > case the latter is abandoned)?
>
> I'm referring to the situation where you have two files, lets say a.txt and
> b.txt, in split windows. When you close a.txt in one split window with :q or :x,
> and stay with b.txt only, hat should release (remove) .a.txt.swp. That is not
> happening.
You're not answering my question: do you have the "hidden" option set or
not? If you do, the behaviour you're observing is normal, since in fact
executing :x does not force the unloading of the buffer from vim's
memory.
Look at the difference.
Case (1), option "hidden" set
-----------------------------
$ vim -o a.txt b.txt
... editing, then executing ":x" on a.txt ...
executing :ls will show:
:ls
1 #h "a.txt" line 1
2 %a "b.txt" line 1
as you can see a.txt is still loaded and indeed .a.txt.swp is on my
filesystem
Case (2), option "hidden" *not* set
-----------------------------------
$ vim -o a.txt b.txt
... editing, then executing ":x" on a.txt ...
executing :ls will show:
:ls
1 # "a.txt" line 1
2 %a "b.txt" line 1
(note how buffer 1 is not hidden as it was above)
no file .a.txt.swp is on my filesystem
Are you in case (1) or (2)?
If you are in (1) it is not a bug, but the documented behaviour of vim.
If you are in (2) it can be a bug, but I can't reproduce it on my
system.
Cheers.
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