Questions tagged [viminfo]

Question 1

Backstory: Creating a TUI in Qt/C++. Much of its functionality is designed mimic vim idioms. Headless environment via qputenv( "QT_QPA_PLATFORM", "eglfs" ); EGLFS is a platform ...

Question 2

How does Vim handle writing .viminfo files? Does it simply append to an existing file, or does it delete and rewrite the file on disk every time Vim exits? Additionally, is this process consistent ...

Question 3

I can't understand why when I open (Win10) gvim91 and press :<up> I don't see my most recent command. I'm sure it used to be this way in previous versions of vim (I updated recently). What I see ...

Question 4

Does Vim read the viminfo when called with a file argument? How can I force Vim to restore the buffer list in that case? Use case & context What I want is: When called as vi: enable read/write ...

Question 5

As simple as the title stated. Suppose I only want to keep the n (say 20) latest files, and the older ones be deleted. How may I configure that?

Question 6

Repost from stackoverflow after suggestion I am trying to move from vim to neovim. I have a strange problem. I have, in my .bashrc, exported $VIMINIT to .config/vim/vimrc so that vim files like ....

Question 7

I need to backup the registers and settings of a limited group of files. I'm more interested in what can be saved in a viminfo file, less interested in sessionss. I'm having a problem reading viminfo ...

Question 8

Where does Vim store b: buffer level variables / dictionaries? RAM or some kind of file on a disk? If it stores it in RAM, how to get an estimate of RAM / storage used by a particular variable / ...

Question 9

I'm writing a script to ensure that everything I work on on my system is committed, pushed to Git etc. I'd also like to check if there are any vim swapfiles active (either in a running Vim, or from ...

Question 10

I'm victim of a witchcraft. Likely my own. There's no Vim session open, based on the empty output of pidof vim and can open a new or existing file just fine. When I quit it with :q, however, I see to ...

Question 11

I have a percent sign in my viminfo string, so my buffer list is saved when I exit vim, and restored when I restart. When I start vim with a filename argument, the buffer list isn't restored, which ...

Question 12

I'm trying to clean out erroneous entries in my command history. Though I could (in theory) use :call histdel("expression") it would be easier for me to just delete the entries from the .viminfo file. ...

Question 13

I use in my vimrc the following option: set viminfo+=% This allows vim to open the last edited files if you don't pass any arguments to vim. Is there a way to ignore some files? I want to disable ...

Question 14

I have been using Vim/vi for a while but my computer ran out of space while writing a file and then this error appeared and continues to whenever I open or exit vi. E575: viminfo: Illegal starting ...

Question 15

I love using Vim yet have a lot of very sensitive, encrypted files to edit, sometimes on an unencrypted drive, and can't have any residual information from these files forensically accessible to other ...

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Questions tagged [viminfo]

How do you externally write to vim's register, that an active session will seemlessly pick it up?

How does VIM write .viminfo files

Vim commandline history and viminfo

Read viminfo when argc() > 0

Limit the amount of oldfiles in Vim and Neovim

$VIMINIT conflicts for neovim and vim

BufReadPre and reading viminfo file

Where are buffer level variables stored in Vim? And how to get their RAM / storage usage?

Check if any vi process is editing a file, or swapfile exists?

Strange error when closing Vim

Don't want buffer list to be overwritten when I launch vim with filename argument

.viminfo is read-only even after chmod 744

Ignore some files when using viminfo+=%

Cannot find the viminfo file to fix the E575 error Windows 10 WSL

How to encrypt the .viminfo file and still get Vim to read it?

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