Re: storing variables in viminfo

On 29/08/11 10:36, sinbad wrote:
> On Aug 29, 1:29 pm, "Christian Brabandt"<cbli...@256bit.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, August 29, 2011 10:06 am, sinbad wrote:
>>> my viminfo setting is viminfo='20,"50,! and my variable name is
>>> g:MYLIST
>>> i am running vim 7.0. even after the above settings the variable is
>>> not saved
>>> am i missing anything else.
>>
>> Storing dictionaries or lists is only supported with Vim 7.3.030
>>
>> regards,
>> Christian
>
> hi Jürgen,
>
> Actually it is a list. As storing lists doesn't seem to be supported
> in vim 7.0
> is there any workaround for this, besides installing latest vim.
> as this is office server, i have to install it locally. and i faced
> many lib issues while doing that (latest vim requires latest ncurses,
> termlib ...)
> etc.
>
> thanks
>

You can convert it back and forth to a string:

if has('viminfo') && has('autocmd')
set vi^=!
au VimEnter *
\ if exists('MYLIST_STR')
\ | let MyList = eval(MYLIST_STR)
\ | else
\ | unlet! MyList
\ | endif
au VimLeavePre *
\ if exists('MyList')
\ | let MYLIST_STR = string(MyList)
\ | else
\ | unlet! MYLIST_STR
\ | endif
endif

Best regards,
Tony.
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