I have no idea why, but it seems that no matter how I quit out of Vim, it always leaves the swap files behind. So, whenever I open that file again, I get an irritating error about an existing swap file. Every time I have to choose "delete". I really wish this would stop. Is there anything I can put in my .vimrc to tell it, "just delete the swap file if it exists and leave me alone?"
Vim: Stop "existing swap file" warnings
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Command-Q on the Mac OS quits the Terminal window, and crashes every application running in the window.
To quit VIM, you have to use ordinary VIM commands like :q.
See the VIM recovery manual entry. You shouldn't be seeing these files normally, unless
- your VIM instance is crashing
- you're inadvertently running two VIM instances against the same file
I quite often do the latter, running 2 VIMs against the same file, in two terminals, without realising it. The 'swap file' message is the indicator that I'm doing this.
Perhaps you've got a VIM session running (backgrounded?) that you've forgotten about ?
It's possible that you have not enough rights for some directory in the path to your current directory. It just happened to me.
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