> >>> > >>>> Now and then I start editing a file and want to go back to a > >>>> file I edited in a previous edit session. But the name > >>>> doesn't appear in the marks or buffer list. Still, I know > >>>> the file name is in the viminfo file. There are plugins for > >>>> this, but I thought it would be nice if Vim could retrieve > >>>> file names natively. > >>>> > >>>> The idea is simple: when reading the viminfo file on startup, > >>>> store the file names from the list of buffer marks in > >>>> v:oldfiles. This already makes it possible to use them. For > >>>> convenience I added the ":oldfiles" > >>>> command to list them (nicer than ":echo v:oldfiles"). And > >>>> the #<N item to be able to use the file name in most places > >>>> on the command line. > >>>> > >>>> Please try the patch and tell me what you think. > >>>> > >>> Bram - I think there is a glitch in the patch that you attached. It > >>> looks like a couple of lines are missing -- lines that should say that > >>> runtime/doc/starting.txt is being patched. > >>> > >>> I've just tried building with this patch. I haven't done any testing > >>> yet, but the patch fails because it is trying to patch eval.txt with > >>> hunks intended for starting.txt. > >>> > >>> I use Yegappan Lakshmanan's wonderful mru.vim for tracking > >>> recently-used files, but some built-in support would be great. > >>> > >> > >> Sorry for the broken patch. Here is a new attempt. > >> > >> > > > > The new patch went in cleanly, but when I tried to do a make: > >> ex_cmds.c: In function 'do_viminfo': > >> ex_cmds.c:2094: error: too many arguments to function 'copy_viminfo_marks' > >> > > I'm using vim7.2.018 > The problem is that the updated proto/mark.pro was omitted from the > patch; the prototype for copy_viminfo_marks() should be: > void copy_viminfo_marks __ARGS((vir_T *virp, FILE *fp_out, int count, > int eof, int flags)); > > (ie. ", int flags" was missing)
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