[arch-general] VIM history

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On 02/12/2010 12:08 PM, gt wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan<lists at itech7.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi, while I was on Fedora, whenever I opened a file using vim, the next
>> time I open it, it used to open at the same line where I closed it.
>>
>> What is the setting to enable this feature ? Its a big pain in the a$$ to
>> scroll through the file every time I want to find the line.
>>
>> --
>> Nilesh Govindarajan
>> Site&  Server Adminstrator
>> www.itech7.com
>>
>
> Add this to your .vimrc
>
> " When editing a file, always jump to the last known cursor position.
>    " Don't do it when the position is invalid or when inside an event handler
>    " (happens when dropping a file on gvim).
>    " Also don't do it when the mark is in the first line, that is the default
>    " position when opening a file.
>    autocmd BufReadPost *
>      \ if line("'\"")>  1&&  line("'\"")<= line("$") |
>      \   exe "normal! g`\"" |
>      \ endif

Thanks :)

-- 
Nilesh Govindarajan
Site & Server Adminstrator
www.itech7.com