Vim and cursor position

Vim and cursor position

[James Darnley]

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To the maintainer, Yaakov, or anyone else who knows:

Have the compilation options of Vim changed recently?  Is there some
other recent change that would cause the behaviour described below?

Vim now appears to be remembering the last position of the cursor when
you open files.  I notice it most when running 'git commit', the cursor
never starts on the first line but would appear to be where ever I ended
the previous message.

I find this jolly annoying.

I would appreciate any insights people can offer.

Thanks, James.


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Re: Vim and cursor position

[Gary Johnson]

On 2016-02-14, James Darnley wrote:
> To the maintainer, Yaakov, or anyone else who knows:
> 
> Have the compilation options of Vim changed recently?  Is there some
> other recent change that would cause the behaviour described below?
> 
> Vim now appears to be remembering the last position of the cursor when
> you open files.  I notice it most when running 'git commit', the cursor
> never starts on the first line but would appear to be where ever I ended
> the previous message.
> 
> I find this jolly annoying.
> 
> I would appreciate any insights people can offer.

Recent releases of the Cygwin Vim package (starting with 7.4.1179-1,
2016-01-29) have included Red Hat's or Fedora's /etc/vimrc, which is
loaded first when starting Vim.  That file contains a BufReadPost
autocommand to do what you observe.

I don't like it, either, so I have this in my ~/.vimrc:

    " Remove the (annoying) /etc/vimrc autocommand that positions
    " the cursor " to the location it last had when the file was
    " closed.
    "
    if exists("#fedora#BufRead#*")
	au! fedora BufRead *
    endif
    if exists("#redhat#BufRead#*")
	au! redhat BufRead *
    endif

For Cygwin, you need only one of those, but I'm at home, my Cygwin
installation is at work, and I don't remember whether Cygwin uses
the Fedora or the Red Hat version of /etc/vimrc.

You may want to take a look at /etc/vimrc and see if it makes any
other settings you find undesirable and undo them in your ~/.vimrc
as well.

Regards,
Gary


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Re: Vim and cursor position

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Gary Johnson!

> Recent releases of the Cygwin Vim package (starting with 7.4.1179-1,
> 2016-01-29) have included Red Hat's or Fedora's /etc/vimrc, which is
> loaded first when starting Vim.  That file contains a BufReadPost
> autocommand to do what you observe.

> I don't like it, either, so I have this in my ~/.vimrc:

>     " Remove the (annoying) /etc/vimrc autocommand that positions
>     " the cursor " to the location it last had when the file was
>     " closed.
>     "
>     if exists("#fedora#BufRead#*")
>         au! fedora BufRead *
>     endif
>     if exists("#redhat#BufRead#*")
>         au! redhat BufRead *
>     endif

> For Cygwin, you need only one of those, but I'm at home, my Cygwin
> installation is at work, and I don't remember whether Cygwin uses
> the Fedora or the Red Hat version of /etc/vimrc.

> You may want to take a look at /etc/vimrc and see if it makes any
> other settings you find undesirable and undo them in your ~/.vimrc
> as well.

It may be worthwhile to do this only for certain names of files.
Overall, I find having editor remember where I have been in the code useful.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, February 15, 2016 00:21:34

Sorry for my terrible english...


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Re: Vim and cursor position

[James Darnley]

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On 2016-02-14 21:24, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2016-02-14, James Darnley wrote:
>> To the maintainer, Yaakov, or anyone else who knows:
>>
>> Have the compilation options of Vim changed recently?  Is there some
>> other recent change that would cause the behaviour described below?
>>
>> Vim now appears to be remembering the last position of the cursor when
>> you open files.  I notice it most when running 'git commit', the cursor
>> never starts on the first line but would appear to be where ever I ended
>> the previous message.
>>
>> I find this jolly annoying.
>>
>> I would appreciate any insights people can offer.
> 
> Recent releases of the Cygwin Vim package (starting with 7.4.1179-1,
> 2016-01-29) have included Red Hat's or Fedora's /etc/vimrc, which is
> loaded first when starting Vim.  That file contains a BufReadPost
> autocommand to do what you observe.
> 
> I don't like it, either, so I have this in my ~/.vimrc:
> 
>     " Remove the (annoying) /etc/vimrc autocommand that positions
>     " the cursor " to the location it last had when the file was
>     " closed.
>     "
>     if exists("#fedora#BufRead#*")
> 	au! fedora BufRead *
>     endif
>     if exists("#redhat#BufRead#*")
> 	au! redhat BufRead *
>     endif
> 
> For Cygwin, you need only one of those, but I'm at home, my Cygwin
> installation is at work, and I don't remember whether Cygwin uses
> the Fedora or the Red Hat version of /etc/vimrc.
> 
> You may want to take a look at /etc/vimrc and see if it makes any
> other settings you find undesirable and undo them in your ~/.vimrc
> as well.
> 
> Regards,
> Gary

Thank you very much.  For everyone's information: /etc/vimrc appears to
group things under "fedora".

P.S.  Sorry about the double mail Gary.



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