Re: Always restore buffer list from .viminfo file

On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 3:26:17 AM UTC-6, Arvid Warnecke wrote:
> Hello,
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> is there any chance to recover all opened buffers in vim from the
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> ~/.viminfo file somehow?
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> I understood that vim trashes the buffers list when vim is started with
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> a specific file to edit. But as I use vim in mutt as my default editor
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> as well, I always loose my buffers because mutt opens it like this:
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> `vim /tmp/mutt-archbookPro-1000-895-3021467551525290154`
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> So it does not help when I try to use only one vim instance running on
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> my workstation to keep all buffers around.
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> I read something about v:oldfiles, but I have no clue how this file
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> might be of any help, because I just have a list of all old files in a
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> new buffer. I am not able to restore the buffers from it.
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I don't know anything about keeping the buffer list around like you want, but I do use the MRU plugin for a reasonably nice way to go back to the last few files I was editing.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=521

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