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		parfe on Sept 14, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I boosted my Vim `set backupdir=~/.vim/backup// set directory=~/.vim/swp//` The double tailing slash will store files using full paths so if you edit two different models.py files you won't clobber your swap or backups.

davidu on Sept 14, 2010 [–]

Oh man, this is awesome. Too bad it's vim-specific and not a shell built-in, which would be handy.

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