vi cursor position remembered on exit

gazj · 2008-02-15 16:26:45

Hi All

I swear vi used to remember it's cursor position on exit, so next time you opened the file you were where you left off. This seems to have stopped working, am I missing something?

Thanks

mfolnovic · 2008-02-15 17:18:29

It's working here now ...

F · 2008-02-15 18:17:01

Mine only remembers the line I was last on, not the exact position. Unfortunately I have absolutely no idea where in the .vimrc this is explicitly stated.

gazj · 2008-02-15 18:44:34

Well line is better than nothing (it may have been line)

Could one of you post your .vimrc just to see if I can work it out.

Cheers

nj · 2008-02-15 19:25:54

  " When editing a file, always jump to the last known cursor position.
  " Don't do it when the position is invalid or when inside an event handler
  " (happens when dropping a file on gvim).
  autocmd BufReadPost *
    \ if line("'\"") > 0 && line("'\"") <= line("$") |
    \   exe "normal! g`\"" |
    \ endif

Note that the normal command uses the backquote instead of the single quote, which goes to the line and column. Changing it to a single quote will just go to the line.

This code should already be in your /etc/vimrc unless it was modified.

shining · 2008-02-15 20:12:16

Strange, it's working on one box (using testing repo), but not on another (not testing).
Same vim version on both, same config

gazj · 2008-02-15 20:34:18

Strange it is in my /etc/vimrc

It works for root!
I wonder why my profile is ignoring it?

On another note, must be related. When I log into tty1-6 my .bashrc does not get applied, opening urxvt it does. Didn't worry about it to much until now, but now I think both problems are more than coincedence

Bizarre!

Anyone?

shining · 2008-02-15 22:08:42

gazj wrote:

On another note, must be related. When I log into tty1-6 my .bashrc does not get applied, opening urxvt it does. Didn't worry about it to much until now, but now I think both problems are more than coincedence

I believe that's expected.
tty1-6 == login shells -> .bash_profile
urxvt == non login shell -> .bashrc

Though it's also possible to enable login shell mode for most terminals
IIRC, for xterm and urxvt, there is a loginShell option which can be put in .Xdefaults

peets · 2008-02-15 22:55:22

I think (haven't checked -- using win32 at work,) I think that ~/.vimrc overrides /etc/vimrc.

gazj · 2008-02-16 00:06:34

@shining

Doh - Silly me at sometime I had deleted my .bash_profile. I had read about that in tty's before somewhere, but had obvioulsy forgot it. Don't think I will again Thanks for that shining

@peets

I have removed my .vimrc but the problem still occurs. I have also tried copying /etc/virc to ~/.virc and ~/.vimrc it still won't work. Thank you tho good suggestion. It's like vi is completely ignoring any configs. Wierd!!

schivmeister · 2009-06-26 07:44:29

Let me revive this..

I've found a workaround:

It looks like ~/.viminfo only gets created by root, and you will have one in your user's dir when you use sudo. Changing the ownership and group will resume normal behaviour (cursor position remembered).

But one question:

Why doesn't ~/.viminfo get created for a non-root user?

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