How can I prevent swap/backup files in VIM for one specific file?

Question

I've got this password file, and when editing this in vim I want to make sure vim does not create a swap/backup file. How to set this?

But I do not want this for all files, just for a specific one. Is this possible?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 14 '12 at 00:58

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If your file can contain comments you can set the nobackup and noswapfile by adding a modeline to the start or end of the file.

Something like this:

# vim: set nobackup noswapfile:

answered Jul 14 '12 at 00:58

Michael Anderson

Michael Berkowski · Answer 2 · 2012-07-14T01:09:11.640

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You could use autocmd to set nobackup for that filename or filenames matching a specific pattern/extension:

autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile passwordfilename set nobackup
autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile passwordfilename set noswapfile

edited Jul 14 '12 at 01:09

answered Jul 14 '12 at 00:52

Michael Berkowski

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