created June 15, 2006 · complexity intermediate · author John Little · version n/a
Here's another variation on swapping to a file in another instance of Vim.
In Vim 7, this is what the SwapExists event is for. I use Vim on Windows accessing files via a samba mount onto the development server, and rely on the file type association to start Vim, and typically have half a dozen Vim instances, fighting for space with terminal sessions and applications, and so the swap file warning is a nuisance. Cured with:
function! AskVims()
let full_name = escape(expand("<afile>:p"), ' ')
for i in split(serverlist())
if i != v:servername
if remote_expr(i, 'bufexists("' . full_name . '")')
echo 'found in ' . i
call remote_foreground(i)
call remote_expr(i, 'foreground()')
let v:swapchoice = 'q'
return
endif
endif
endfor
echo "not found"
let v:swapchoice = ''
endfunction
auto SwapExists * call AskVims()
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Vim 7's distribution contains a file in the runtime/macros directory called editExisting.vim that does this already.
You could just copy it into one of your plugin directories or create a small editExisting.vim in your plugin directory that does this:
runtime! macros/editExisting.vim