Re: Can vim be made to start with selected files already open?

On Wed, June 6, 2012 01:02, Eric Weir wrote:
>
> On May 24, 2012, at 7:26 AM, Michael Henry wrote:
>
>> There are lots of ways, and I'm sure others might suggest some
>> of them. I routinely save my state before exiting Vim using
>> something like this::
>>
>> :mksession ~/SomeSessionName.vim
>>
>> When I restart Vim, I manually reload my session like this::
>>
>> :source ~/SomeSessionName.vim
>
> Weird. When I do :mksession ~\startup.vim a second time, i.e., after
> having quit vim and restarting, I get a message saying the file exists and
> to add "!" to overwrite. When I do that, however, the file gets saved as
> startup.vim! Then on the next source it loads the previous session, not
> the last one.

You need to add the ! to the mksession command, not to the file name ;)

regards,
Christian

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