How to prevent vim from creating (and leaving) temporary files?

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I’d strongly recommend to keep working with swap files (in case Vim crashes).

You can set the directory where the swap files are stored, so they don’t clutter your normal directories:

set swapfile
set dir=~/tmp

See also

:help swap-file

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