From: Benji Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: History and "set history=xx"
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:04:28 -0400
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:16:23PM +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> > From: "Yakov Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: History and "set history=xx"
> > Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:41:58 +0300
> >
> > > How about this.
> > > (1) Add this
> > >
> > > echo "111111 history=".&history
> > >
> > > to your .vimrc right after the 'set history=100' line.
> > > (2) Add this:
> > >
> > > echo "999999 history=".&history
> > >
> > > at the very end of your .vimrc.
> > > (3) Restart vim. What do you see ?
> >
> > This is displayed:
> >
> > 111111 history=100
> > 999999 history=20
> > Press ENTER or type command to continue
> >
> > Seems that something else is fiddeling with this value...
> > Are there any implicite ways to (re-)set the history count ?
> > A "reset all" or something like that ?
>
> At this point, you should be able to finish debugging by yourself.
> If a close reading of your vimrc file is not enough, you can move the
> second debugging line around in your vimrc file (in a binary search
> pattern, if the file is large) until you find where it changes.
>
> Look for shortened forms of "set history":
>
> /^\s*set\=\s\+hi
>
> and for :source'd files:
>
> /^\s*so
> /^\s*ru
>
> In all cases, do not stop at the first match.
>
> Of course, there is also the lazy "solution": move the line
>
> set history=100
>
> to the end of your vimrc files.
>
> HTH --Benji Fisher
>
result:
set nocompatible
sets
set history=20
.
Why this is implemented that way and why one has to debug step
through his .vimrc to find out isn't obvious to me. And I fear,
I am not the only one...
mcc
