Problems with swp files

[martin-hoger]

Hi Szymon,

sometimes I used to experience that the Ctrl space didn't load my workspace and just hanged. I had to press ctrl+C, delete the workspace and create it again.
Today I have realized that the problem was caused by loading a "crached" file which had an existing swp file.

Not sure if this is something you can deal with, just wanted to let you know about the behaviour.

Best from Czech,

Martin

[szw]

Hi Martin,

Interesting! I don't use swap files at all but I think even if there is something wrong with swap files, the plugin should inform user about that, and at least it should quit gracefully or abort the action. I'll look at this in a spare moment.

BTW. I'm open to pull requests as well ;)

Best regards!

s.

[martin-hoger]

Normally when opening crasched file vim show a screen with info about the file:

But somehow when the file is loaded by the plugin, it just hangs. I guess it might be problem of vim not showing the screen, or something like this.

I am not so experience in vimscript, so I might not be able to debug it. But thats not a big problem, when the swp file is deleted, it works well. It doesn't happen that often, so I can live with it quite well.

BTW: Is there an advantage not sing swp files? Is vim running faster or something like this?

[szw]

Yeah, I've got it. Ideally it should ask the user with the same screen. I believe it does, but it is not displayed, because the screen is not refreshed at that moment. But this is only my guessing. I will look at the code perhaps on the weekend.

I don't like swap files for a few reasons. I've set the updatetime quite fast (a lot of plugins depends on that, for example Tagbar. Also I like my vim to be responsive, and it doesn't write anything at each CursorHold event. And the last reason is the headache you mentioned with opening the same file from multiple vim instances. For example, I like to have a project opened in my main Vim instance, then in a second terminal (tmux window) I'd like to have opened some files just temporarily (some in-place editons before commit or sth). Also with CtrlSpace I like to have tabs with files belonging to other projects (for example, to boilerplate code preview), which might be opened in other tmux sessions too.

[martin-hoger]

I think you gave me good reasons to try to switch swap off. :)
Can I ask how fast your updatetime is? Just out of curiosity...

[szw]

:) Sure. Right now my updatetime is set to 200ms. You can find my whole .vimrc here: https://github.com/szw/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc#L80

[martin-hoger]

Cool, thank you!

[zackp30]

Same issue here, looks like the screen "is there", but the menu isn't being rendered, however the key-bindings still work (e.g, pressing d a few times will delete the swap file (not recommended for obvious reasons), and the session is regained). Would be nice to see this fixed.

Awesome plugin by the way.

Thanks!

[martin-hoger]

I can recommend to switch off swap. Since then no issue like this.

[zackp30]

I would prefer to keep swap files.

[szw]

Yeap, it deserves to be solved in some elegant way. I will handle that issue soon.

[zackp30]

Thanks! 😄

[szw]

Ok, now it should ask you if it cannot proceed with temp files.

[bodograumann]

I have just started using ctrlspace (which is great btw.) and am now seeing this issue. Should I open a new report about it?

[cometsong]

@bodograumann - yes please open a new issue with a full description of the scenario and how we can reproduce it. :)