On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 05:14:20PM +0100, Peter Princz wrote:
>
> Dear vim list,
>
> I'm a long time vim user, but now I feel lost in the woods with marks
> (file bookmarks). Please help. Maybe my problem was always there since
> years but never surfaced, because I only had one laptop and carried my
> file with the bookmarks and viminfo and view files and whatnot
> together.
>
> But now I have two computers, one in the office and one at home. I
> have a huge outline file I'm editing with vimoutliner plugin in vim
> and I have a lot of vim marks within the file. I carry the file
> between the two computers on a usb stick back and forth. I just
> realised whenever I edit the file at home, my marks will land a few
> lines astray compared to where I left them the day before. When I
> don't edit the file at home, everything is OK. This is normal, marks
> are stored outside the file as expected, so I should carry that file
> holding the marks also between the computers. Fine, but where are
> they? I could not find them, not even after reading the documentation
> and googling.
>
> I use view files, this is in my .vimrc since ages:
>
> " Peter Princz, 2005.10.28 {{{1
> " file view settings
> autocmd BufWinLeave * silent! mkview
> autocmd BufWinEnter * silent! loadview
> " }}}1
>
> Help would suggest marks are in the .viminfo file, but they are not
> there. More precisely, *my* marks are not there, in fact nothing from
> a..z is there, only 0..9 and X, that I'm not using:
>
> This is in my .viminfo:
>
> # File marks:
> 'X 8465 7 ~/blabla
> '0 1 0 /blabla
> '1 9732 5 ~/blabla
> '2 19565 8 ~/blabla
> '3 19269 9 ~/blabla
> '4 19216 4 ~/blabla
> '5 19225 20 ~/blabla
> '6 18857 20 ~/blabla
> '7 1942 54 ~/blabla
> '8 18789 7 ~/blabla
> '9 1 0 /media/disk-1/blabla
>
> They are not in the view file either. All my mappings are there, but
> not the marks. Note: the documentation does not suggest they should be
> there, it was just my last shot in the dark.
> I even did a grep -R recursively under my home to find a known string
> where a mark is pointing to in the file but no success. What am I
> doing wrong? It is vim 7.2 on linux.
>
> My general question is what are the best practices to move between
> computers back and forth with a set of text files edited in vim, if
> the home directories and user names, etc. are different. Luckily, all
> path referemces in .viminfo and the view files are relative from ~ as
> home. Am I right if the directory tree structure is identical under
> the two homes all these should work fine?
>
> Your input is very much appreciated.
What is the value of your 'viminfo' setting? In particular, I believe
that you want to include the ' and possibly the f flags in that
setting.
:help 'viminfo'
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Erik Falor
Registered Linux User #445632 http://counter.li.org
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