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I'm working at a project on a remote server. I don't want to have the swap files on the server. I would like all swap files for Vim (and, of course, gVim) to be saved on the specified directory. How could I do that?
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swp is a swap file, containing the unsaved changes. While editing a file, you can see which swap file is being used by entering :sw . The location of this file is set with directory option. The default value is .,~/tmp,/var/tmp,/tmp .
By default, the swap file is created in the same location as the virtual machine's configuration file, which may either be on a VMFS datastore, a vSAN datastore or a VMware vSphere® Virtual VolumesTM datastore. On a vSAN datastore or a vVols datastore, the swap file is created as a separate vSAN or vVols object.
You can set the directory option to the location that you want vim to store its swap files, e.g.:
mkdir -p $HOME/.vim/swapfiles # this dir must exist vi does not create it " $HOME/.vimrc :set directory=$HOME/.vim/swapfiles// I use trailing double path separators because, from the help docs:
For Unix and Win32, if a directory ends in two path separators "//" or "\\", 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.
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