rubynortheast/rubynortheast.github.com — comment on commit 8f30eacf4dbbecf42f19306dd4b754acd923a987
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By damian:

@ianoxley Fair point, but you shouldn't be polluting your working directory with swap files at all. You can define where they are put in your vimrc, here's a snippet from mine.

set backupdir=~/.vim/tmp
set directory=~/.vim/tmp