Thanks for the quick reply Tim! I did a little more research based on
your help, and I found the options.txt help file. From what I
understand, to do what I want to do, I should put the following line in
my ~/.vimrc:
set viminfo='50,<1000,s100
However, this still doesn't cause vim to remember registers across
sessions. I'll save an "@ macro" in one instance of gvim, close gvim,
and then when I re-open it, I can't use that macro. Does anyone else
know if there's something I'm missing?
Strange. You are correct that the viminfo setting you list
*should* do the trick. To evidence this, I started up vim,
recorded a macro to the "q" register, ran it a couple times, and
quit, then restarted vim, and tried "@a" again to execute the
macro. Worked like a charm.
My first suspicion would be that something is impolitely tromping
on your viminfo setting. You might try
:verbose set viminfo?
to see if it's been changed elsewhere. Then, grab a baseball bat
and your cousins Guido, Fat Tony & Vinny and go "remedy" the
problem. ;)
-tim
