Bug#383109: vim-perl: Swap files not released on file close

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

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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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