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---
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title: vim-viminfo
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homepage: https://webinstall.dev/vim-viminfo
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viminfo keeps track of Vim's state when switching between files
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---
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To update (replacing the current version) run `webi vim-viminfo`.
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### Files
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These are the files / directories that are created and/or modified with this
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install:
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```text
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~/.vim/plugins/viminfo.vim
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~/.vimrc
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```
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## Cheat Sheet
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> ~/.viminfo stores cursor position, copy and paste buffers, command history,
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> and a few other goodies. The defaults aren't always good, and should be
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> tweaked.
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In an age where we have terabytes of storage (rather than kilobytes of storage),
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it makes sense to bump the size of Vim's copy buffers to match the full size of
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largest code file you're likely to come across, and somewhere between several
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hours and a few days worth of history.
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This one-line plugin does just that.
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### How to install manually
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Create the file `~/.vim/plugins/viminfo.vim`. Add the same contents as
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<https://github.com/webinstall/webi-installers/blob/master/vim-viminfo/viminfo.vim>.
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That will look something like this:
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```vim
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" Tell vim to remember certain things when we exit
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" '100 : marks will be remembered for up to 100 previously edited files
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" "20000: will save up to 20,000 lines for each register
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" :200 : up to 200 lines of command-line history will be remembered
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" % : saves and restores the buffer list
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" n... : where to save the viminfo files
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set viminfo='100,\"20000,:200,%,n~/.viminfo
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```
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Then `~/.vimrc` should be updated to include it:
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```vim
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" viminfo: reasonable defaults from webinstall.dev/vim-viminfo
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source ~/.vim/plugins/viminfo.vim
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```
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