Thomas wrote:
> Part two in this week's installment of unsolicited comment on vimscript:
>
> I also realized that viminfo doesn't save upper case letter variables
> the values of which are dictionaries. This can be solved by using
> VimEnter & VimLeavePre autocommands and by converting the variable to &
> from strings. If this is intended to be so, I think this should be noted
> in the help -- AFAIK it currently isn't.
It's documented at ":help 'viminfo'":
CHAR VALUE ~
! When included, save and restore global variables that start
with an uppercase letter, and don't contain a lowercase
letter. Thus "KEEPTHIS and "K_L_M" are stored, but "KeepThis"
and "_K_L_M" are not. Only String and Number types are
stored.
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"What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting around.
"No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all."
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