Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Re: Vim Aware File Management?

Excerpts from howardb21's message of Thu Feb 24 01:51:36 +0100 2011:
> Im not sure how other.vim tracks changes, between sessions. Say
> viminfo contains information about filename1, that you edited in a
> previous session. In the current session, you rename filename1 to
> filename2. If you did not load filename1 fore editing in the current
> session --vim has no way to know filename1 is now filename2. But
> without such tracking, old filenames might stay in viminfo forever!

Think about it? Does it make sense? Vim is old. This kind of stupid
annoyance is very unlikely to be found in Vim.

If you do :helpgrep viminfo you'll find many hits. One is about
v:oldfiles telling about

The length of the List is limited by the ' argument of
the 'viminfo' option (default is 100).

I didn't verify that the docs are correct though.

Marc Weber

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