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Best regards,
Tony.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: No Previous Regular expression
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 20:02:36 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Quoting "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Tim Johnson wrote:
> Using vim 7.0 on kubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn amd 64)
>
> I've recently migrated from vim 6-something on slack 10.0
> On my previous version and box, if I searched on an expression
> in one file, closed it and opened another, "n" would continue
> with the search.
>
> Now, I get an "E35: No previous regular expression".
>
> I've imported all of my previous settings, .vimrc etc...
> so I don't know how to correct this.
[snip]
If you close and reopen Vim, the last search pattern is remembered -- or not
-- in the viminfo file. (It is one of the "registers".) [snip]
I suspect that you edited a system file for your settings instead of a
$HOME/.vimrc (or %HOME%\vimfiles). Vim system files are under vim6x/... and
are provided by the vim installation process. When you upgraded to vim7.0 (the
latest is vim7.1, BTW) any customizations you did under vim6x/ are no longer
effective.
Try:
vim
:echo $HOME
to see where your home directory is... and edit a .vimrc file there. Put
set nocp
if version >= 600
filetype plugin indent on
endif
set viminfo=!,'10,\"100,:20,%,nc:\\WINDOWSPATHHERE\\_viminfo
or
set viminfo=!,'25,\"100,:20,%,n~/.viminfo
(latter setting for linux/unix).
And, while I'm at it, here's a snippet to restore cursor position:
" Restore position in file: if previously edited (uses viminfo) {{{1
" David Fishburn mod: use zv to open folds on current line, but after having
read the modelines.
augroup RestorePosition
au!
au BufReadPost * if line("'\"") > 0|if line("'\"") <= line("$")|exe "norm
g`\""|else|exe "norm $"|endif|endif
au BufWinEnter * norm! zv
augroup END
HTH,
Chip Campbell
