In my CentOS configuration, when I use vim6.3 to edit a file, then close it, and re-open it, my cursor starts out at the line where I last left off. In my cygwin (on Windows) configuration, when I use vim7.3, I don't get this behavior. The viminfo does exist and does seem to get read (because if I type '0 it will go to my last cursor location - but that is globally and could change the file being edited). I've also looked at the .viminfo file and see it getting updated as expected.

In my .vimrc file, I have this:
Note that on the CentOS side if I open foo, then I open bar, then I open foo again, my cursor is in the right place for foo, whereas on cygwin if I do this, my cursor would be at the 1st line of foo.. If I were to type '0, it would actually switch to editing bar and put the cursor where I last left off.

Anyhow, this all boils down to asking how I get my cygwin vim to act like my CentOS vim. I've googled a bit and tried a bunch of things to no avail as of yet, and would greatly appreciate any help you could provide.. Thanks!

Here is a previous thread that may be of some help:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...in-vim-552503/

Regards,

Fordeck

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Thanks! That thread definitely helped. Not sure why my initial searching didn't find it - sorry to ask about a question that had already been discussed.. To get this to work, I added this to my .vimrc file:

if has("autocmd")
aug vimrc
au!
" restore cursor position when the file has been read
au BufReadPost *
\ if line("'\"") > 0 && line("'\"") <= line("$") |
\ exe "norm g`\"" |
\ endif
aug ENG
endif

Not that it matters, but I wonder why it works on CentOS without that extra stuff in the .vimrc file. Regardless - thanks again..

I think that without a ~/.vimrc file, vim will use defaults from the global file. For instance Ubuntu stores this file at:

/etc/vim/vimrc

I have a Centos 5.5 which has the vimrc file located in the /etc directory.

Regards,

Fordeck

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