On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Jan Larres <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <[email protected]>: > >>> 2. does anybody know the setting for how to keep the undo history > >>> when I close a window? I work frequently with multiple buffers - and > >>> right now, when I close a window or bring in a new file with ':e', I > >>> lose the history of the current buffer. I would like to be able to > >>> keep the history when I recall the buffer again. > >> > >> Vim 7.3 has persistent undo, that should do what you want. > >> > > so are you saying that > > 1. this is basically an "automatic" feature (in 7.3) > > 2. there's no way to do this pre-7.3? > > If you just close the window, but keep the buffer loaded, the undo > history will also be kept, even in older vim versions. Do you have the > 'hidden' option set? The persistent undo feature in vim 7.3 is for > keeping the history even if the buffer is unloaded, see the help for > 'persistent-undo' in that case. > > right! That's precisely the thing I was looking for!!! (I do not have it set, apparently - I dont even know about the feature!) thanks, -jf -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." --Richard Stallman "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help." -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228 -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
