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Please Vim, stop with these swap file messages. Just switch to the correct window!
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Add code to make autoswap work on Windows. #3

Open torrinj opened 9 years ago

torrinj commented 9 years ago

Some changes to attempt to make this work on Windows using +clientserver. Not perfect, but works.

torrinj commented 9 years ago

I did a quick test and found that remote_expr() returns a result right away, so using it will probably simplify the code a lot since a bunch of that code was dedicated to just waiting for a response. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure what happens if a VIM is unable to respond right away. I'll have to test it. Anyway, I'll see what I can do with the code a little later.

As for the last line of your comment. I would assume the technique will work where ever VIM is compiled with +clientserver. Are you aware of places where we have +clientserver but the technique doesn't work?

gioele commented 9 years ago

It does not simplify the situation when there are GVim instances and Vim instances in terminals, in particular because the latter cannot raise themselves. But I suppose that in Windows all the sessions are Win32 sessions in their own windows, so using the features exposed by +clientserver makes sense.