[SOLVED] Issues With Upgraded Vim

cin_ · 09-04-2012, 11:10 PM

I recently upgraded to Vim 7.3, and since the upgrade my Vim has been acting oddly.

All of the issues I have been having I can work around but I have certain routines that are being interrupted. I had given in to having to become acquainted with my work arounds but I thought before I gave in I would see if anyone has any advice on fixes.

First of all, the syntax highlighting turned off, and through some finagling I managed to get that back to my old settings.

What I am still dealing with is three fold.

(i) The backspace button on my keyboard works outside of Vim but is unresponsive when in Insert mode. Is this a feature or a bug or a malfunction?
(ii) The delete button works on all characters except new lines. Again, with the backspace acting oddly the only way for me to move some code from one line to another is to yank and put.

Code:

This is one line.
This is<---when I rest my cursor here and hit delete.  Vim is unresponsive.
one line.

(iii) Lastly, and probably most simply solved, Vim used to remember the last line I edited upon exiting a text file, but now it forgets and I must run through my whole program again to find the line I last edited.
I want that `one line` to move up!

jv2112 · 09-05-2012, 04:47 AM

Sounds like your ~user/.vimrc files got erased so it is not generating ~user/.viminfo which stores the history.

This is what my .vimrc looks like.

Code:

syntax on -----> Color code on
set nu
set hlsearch
set autoindent 
set ruler
set history=100  ---> To save history in your viminfo you need this set to X # of commands. 
set mouse=a

Hope this helps.

cin_ · 09-05-2012, 06:16 PM

Thanks for the response.
I should have been less hasty. A simple search returned the response I was looking for.
My old .vimrc was blank so I figured it must have been something else, but adding this line:

Code:

set backspace=indent,eol,start

... fixed (i) and (ii).

And this:

Code:

set viminfo='10,\"100,:20,%,n~/.viminfo
function! ResCur()
  if line("'\"") <= line("$")
    normal! g`"
    return 1
  endif
endfunction

augroup resCur
  autocmd!
  autocmd BufWinEnter * call ResCur()
augroup END

... fixed (iii).