Ilya Esteban wrote:
[reordered]
> On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 3:33:35 AM UTC-8, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> > The mark is stored in the viminfo file. When exiting Vim the current
> >
> > marks and the ones in the viminfo file are merged. You can see this if
> >
> > you set the mark elsewhere, then delete it, after restarting Vim you get
> >
> > the old position.
> >
> >
> >
> > Only way to really remove it is by editing the viminfo file.
> >
> > Or you can start vim with "-u NONE" to avoid using the viminfo file.
>
> Thanks for the clarification. I think it would make sense to change
> the behavior so that when exiting Vim the viminfo file just saves all
> the currently active marks, rather than the union of the current marks
> + all the deleted marks.
That doesn't work if you have multiple Vim programs running and they
exit in any order. A mark set in one Vim would be removed by a Vim that
exits later.
> Two reasons:
>
> 1) All files with marks get loaded into hidden buffers on startup. So
> if you have a bunch of files you once marked, they will keep getting
> loaded even if you dont need them anymore (with the additional
> side-effect that any new buffers you create during your session start
> with a double digit ID number)
I wonder who does this, doesn't happen for me.
> 2) If you use a plugin or a customization that visually shows the
> marks, you end up with visual garbage in your files (the old tags),
> that you cant get rid of unless you delete viminfo or reuse the marks
> in a different file.
Solving this properly would require storing the time when a mark was set
and when it was deleted. That's a bit complicated. A simple workaround
is to set the mark in a file that you don't use.
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