Re: How can I restore the current session in VIM

On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:28:26 PM UTC+13, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2014-03-15 19:06, John Little wrote:
> > If I use an upper-case mark in the help, upon returning to that
> > point the help file is not opened in a "help" buffer, but has an
> > ordinary file, even though it has file type "help". It looks ok
> > but the hypertext linking doesn't work.
>
> > Is there a way to set "helpness" for a buffer?
>
> You might look into the 'buftype', 'filetype', and 'syntax'
> settings. In a help window, those are all set to "help".

set buftype=help is what is needed, thank you. I searched eval.txt, I should have looked in options.txt.

> That said, I don't notice an issue dropping an upper-case mark in the
> help, leaving the window, and then using tags upon returning to that
> mark.

You are not exiting vim altogether, coming back to vim the next day like the OP, leaving the window is not enough to see what I was talking about.

Regards, John Little

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