[ILUG] random queries...

[kevin lyda]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:21:34PM +0000, Justin Mason wrote:
> kevin lyda said:
> > yep.  found that, but it wasn't enabled in previous versions of vim
> > on redhat.  also found that "set viminfo=" gets rid of that annoying
> > feature (remembering where you were in a file, etc.) and "set nohls"
> > disables the hilighting - the shorthand for what you mentioned.
> My ghod lads, you're switching off all the best bits ;)

it's a thing that seems neat in theory, but is annoying in practice.
that's just my opinion, i could be wrong - but i'm not.  :)

> Actually I have a related peeve.  If you edit a file with viminfo on,
> so it remembers the position, and then delete that file and create a
> smaller file with the same name, it'll puke out a warning about the
> old position being outside the size of the current file.
> 
> Anyone got a way around this (barring "set viminfo=" ?)

yeah, don't create a smaller file.

you're welcome,

kevin

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