On 5/31/07, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 30 May 2007, David Nečas wrote:
> > If you close and reopen Vim, the last search pattern is remembered -- or
> > not -- in the viminfo file. (It is one of the "registers".) The search
> > history can also be saved. See ":help 'viminfo'".
Yes, search history is being saved.
> And since this is Ubuntu... .viminfo probably got owned by
> root and therefore it is not writable, as was discussed in
> the recent thread.
That's a gotcha - still haven't got used to this 'sudo' thing -
viminfo *was* owned by root, so all is good now.
Thanks folks, I appreciate it.
tim
If this list had a FAQ, it would probably contain this issue and the
large file issue (and maybe something about bottom posting :-P ) So
you are certainly not alone.
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-fREW
