I'm using the default file browser in Vim a lot. But the annoyance is that it's showing swap files, .orig, .php~ etc. Can I hide these files somehow?
On a related note, why doesn't Vim always return to the file browser when pushing Ctrl-6?
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the Tin Man
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possible duplicate of [How to change the folder path for swp files in Vim](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1636297/how-to-change-the-folder-path-for-swp-files-in-vim) – the Tin Man Jan 09 '14 at 05:09
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Unless you want to move the swap and backup files to another (single) directory (as outlined in the answer of the Tin Man), you have to configure the built-in netrw plugin (which provides the file browser), as described in :help g:netrw_list_hide:
:let g:netrw_list_hide= '.*\.swp$,\~$,\.orig$'
Put this into your ~/.vimrc to make it permanent.
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Vim lets you define where your backup and swap files reside. It's pretty common to tell Vim to use either a local tmp directory (~/tmp), or a somewhere else semi-out-of-the-way.
You can define the location using the following commands in your $MYVIMRC file (typically ~/.vimrc). I use:
set backup " keep a backup file
set backupdir=~/.vim/_backups " store backups here
set directory=~/.vim/_swaps " store swap files here
I've created _backups and _swaps in my ~/.vim directory.
Use h directory and h backupdir in Vim to read the documentation about the two settings.
the Tin Man
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Most probably this files appears because Vim was closed before the buffer was written to its original file/location. Always enter :write or :update before quitting Vim.
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Instead of using Ctrl-^, try :Rex.
With netrw v151, :Rex can also return from the netrw browser to the last file being edited in that window, too.
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