haphut / vim-trimswap

Remove redundant Vim swap files from the swap directory

vim-trimswap

Remove redundant Vim swap files from the swap directory.

vim-trimswap will remove each swap file that contains no changes in comparison to the original, manually saved file and that is not in use by a running process.

Assumptions for correct behavior

• Vim uses only one directory for swap files, e.g. with set directory=~/.vim/swap// in vimrc.
• The output of vim -r is in English and in UTF-8.
• vim -r does not detect modified swap files as unmodified.
• vim -r does not detect active swap files as inactive.
  • It does happen that swap files are falsely detected to be handled by a running process, though. That is why vim-trimswap might not remove all expected files.

Usage

Run vim-trimswap to remove redundant swap files.