A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
As has been repeatedly said this past week, this requires a viminfo
setting and an autocommand.
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Has it been said that it didn't require these in the past? I.e. --
has this requirement changed since 64?
The autocommand is defined near line 70 of $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
so if you source the latter, you should have it.
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Was it in a different file before?
The cursor position must also be remembered in the viminfo file; for
this, you need an apostrophe with a non-zero number as one of the parts
of the 'viminfo' option. The 'nocompatible' default includes '20
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The reason I'm asking more questions is my viminfo value is:
'20,<50,s10,h
That appears to be what you are talking about.
For this to work, you need the required features compiled-in:
has("viminfo") and has("autocmd") must both be nonzero.
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Yup. got those.
Maybe some set of common "aufiles" was being sourced and
now isn't being sourced? Still looking to find why it broke...
thanks,
linda
