Re: histdel() and .viminfo

Beeyawned wrote:

> I tried to delete all search history using:
>
> :call histdel('/')
>
> And it seemed to worked because:
>
> :call his /
>
> returned nothing, and starting a search, then using up-arrow returned
> nothing.
>
> --BUT--
>
> It does not clear the search history kept in .viminfo.
>
> Should it?
>
> histdel({history} [, {item}]) *histdel()*
> Clear {history}, i.e. delete all its entries. See |hist-names|
> for the possible values of {history}.

When writing the viminfo file Vim merges the info from the current
process with what was already in the viminfo file. Thus the history you
see in the viminfo file is what was already there.

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