Monday, August 29, 2011

Re: storing variables in viminfo

On Aug 29, 11:54 am, Jürgen Krämer <jottka...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> sinbad wrote:
>
> > how to explicitly store variables in to viminfo file.
> > i want to store a global variable "g:var" into a
> > viminfo file, i read the help it says global vars
> > are stored by default but this doesn't seem to be
> > happening. how to store it explicitly.i want the
> > contents of the global variable to be restored
> > after vim is restarted. how do i do that.
>
> from :help 'viminfo'
>
> |       !       When included, save and restore global variables that start
>                                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^
> |               with an uppercase letter, and don't contain a lowercase
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> |               letter.  Thus "KEEPTHIS and "K_L_M" are stored, but "KeepThis"
>                 ^^^^^^
> |               and "_K_L_M" are not.  Nested List and Dict items may not be
> |               read back correctly, you end up with an empty item.
>
> Regards,
> J rgen
>
> --
> Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere
> in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.     (Calvin)

hi,

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.

thanks

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