vim 10.3

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Hi,

Whenever I am running vim (via vi) it always opens the file at the same line as I was at in the previous one.

I seem to remember that I can turn this behaviour off but, for the life of me, I cannot find the ref.

Anybody know how to turn theis feature off?

Many Thanks.

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  1. cd
  2. rm -f .viminfo
  3. vim .vimrc
  4. set viminfo=“NONE”
    Note that the “set” is placed somewhere inside the file .vimrc
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Hi there,

I thought this was interesting, so tried it myself but when I add this to .vimrc I get the following when starting vim again:

paracelsus@Callandor:~> vim .viminfo
E575: viminfo: Illegal starting char in line: set viminfo=“NONE”
Press ENTER or type command to continue

I tried adding to as:
set viminfo=“none”
:set viminfo=“none”

Checked out the documentation at Vim documentation: options but still no luck.

Any suggestions on what I am missing?

Thanks,
Pete

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Hi there,

Weird - I realised case mattered so tried again with “NONE” - but it still does not work.

Another option is just to start vim as #vim -i none or make an alias for this, which starts it without reading vimrc

Cheers,
Pete

5

You edited the wrong file. You are supposed to delete .viminfo and add the set command to the .vimrc file.

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Also, check for any illegal character before “set”.