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Also, find . -name "*.swp" -exec rm {} \; is also slowly getting abstracted away in my mind as a single, atomic and very useful command.

You can configure Vim to put the swap files in your ~/.vim instead of the directory of the file you're editing, which in my experience is much less annoying - see https://github.com/GregorStocks/configs/blob/35ab5c3c45e5cfa...

I have a directory in /tmp set up for swap files. And indeed, it is much less annoying than having them in the working directory.

You don't recover the editing session first?