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Re:How I boosted my Vim by parfe on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @10:33AM (#1690673) 

    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.
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Re:How I boosted my Vim by davidu on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @02:05PM (#1691571)
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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