That's strange, my marks are maintained when I do an reload
the buffer with :e, and the jumplist seems to be preserved,
too. I never use either mechanism, but a little experiment
shows they are still there. Perhaps there are other things
that are erased too though, a side-effect I hadn't thought of.
Ah...I do see some persistance of these things depending on where
the marks were in the file. I tested the following in a 100 line
file (with "vi -u NONE"):
:1,30d
:3
:ka
:e!
:'a
It doesn't return to the line I marked previously (originally
line 33), but to line 3 of the previous file.
Semi-understandable...just a somewhat peculiar behavior when
:1,30d
:3
:ka
:u
:'a
does return to the proper spot. It seems to sorta keep the
marks. Similar oddities seem to happen with jumps.
Perhaps it is something to do with my vimrc; I am pretty keen
on keeping things around for as long as possible (:set hidden,
:set history=1000, etc)
I'm somewhere in between...I like long histories, but only set
'hidden' as needed as a reminder to myself. I also don't let
.viminfo handle much, as I like to have a fairly fresh copy of
vim each time I start it.
