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I want my app to update automatically when I save my files. So I use inotify (ubuntu) to create watchers that detect the events.
The issue is vim overwrites the file instead of updating it. So my watcher is lost after the first update.
I wonder, is there a way to setup vim so it doesn’t use swap files and updates directly the file ?
(I tried :set noswapfile and the -n option, that removes the swap file without changing the behaviour)
You can do this: