Tickets :: Comment on [#16] swap file cannot be created for files with long names

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Comment	> VMS has a limit of 39 chars for the file extension. > > vim creates swap files by appending _sw% to the end of the extension. > > Naturally, if the extension of the file is already 36+ characters, > the swap file cannot be created: > > $ vim a.123456789012345678901234567890123456 > E303: Unable to open swap file for > "a.123456789012345678901234567890123456", recovery impossible > > Would it be possible for the swap file name to use just the first 35 > chars of the extension, before appending _sw%? Of course there would > be ambiguity for similarly-named files: > a.12345678901234567890123456789012345a > a.12345678901234567890123456789012345b > > Would this matter? Or is some kind of swap-file ambiguity already > accepted (e.g. for multi-translation logical names)?
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