Thanks again for all of the great tips Tim!
>> set viminfo='50,<1000,s100
> 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.
I looked in my .viminfo file under the "#Registers:" section, and I
didn't see a "q" register. I saw 0-9, and a few other letters, but no
"q". So I guess it's not being written, but I can't imagine why not.
> 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. ;)
I added this to my .vimrc file, and when I close vim, my viminfo
settings are sent to stdout. But that's the only time that I see my
settings. My assumption is therefore that no other file is changing my
viminfo setting. Also, I found these other files on my system that may
be affecting my viminfo settings (I use Debian Linux):
$ locate vimrc | xargs grep viminfo
/etc/vim/vimrc:set viminfo='20,\"50
/usr/share/vim/vimrc:set viminfo='20,\"50
Thanks again!
Tom Purl
