Jorge Almeida wrote:
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Yakov Lerner wrote:
Are you on Windows ?
No way!
On unix/linux, it's dubious you would lose
viminfo contents (that' where cursor positions come from)
when upgrading vim. I upgrade vim often, and I never lose
cursor positions (linux).
Well, I did more than once, but I can't garantee the upgrading had
something to do with it. Maybe too much time passed before revisiting
the same file...
The viminfo file holds mark positions for a finite number of files. How
many can be set via the 'viminfo' option (q.v.). If the file is pushed
too far away in history, you lose marks & cursor position, and the next
time you edit it the cursor is at the top of the file.
Find out where is your viminfo file stored, and use
n flag of 'viminfo' option (:help 'viminfo' and scroll down to flag n)
to keep this file in the location which is not overwritten
(like c:\viminfo )
Didn't know about that file. It's in ~/.viminfo.
I think a session file would be more appropriate. But the manual is not
clear to me: If I start vim as "vim -S vimbook.vim", will the file
vimbook.vim be automaticaly updated when exiting vim?
Thanks.
Jorge
A viminfo in your home directory won't be overwritten by an upgrade.
You can set your viminfo anywhere, see
:help 'viminfo'
:help :rviminfo
:help :wviminfo
After "vim -S vimbook.vim" I don't think it will be updated at exit,
UNLESS you add the following to your vimrc:
:au VimLeave *
\ if exists("v:this_session")
\ && v:this_session != ""
\ | exe "mksession" v:this_session
\ | endif
(you can write it all on one line without \ line continuators but this
way our mailers won't try to "beautify" it).
Best regards,
Tony.
