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Make Vim Remember The Cursor’s Last Position After Exiting

So you edit a file in vim, you exit vim, and after a while you want to edit the file again. Many times it’s nice to have the cursor placed in the same position you left it. Here’s how to make this happen:

1. Add this to your ~/.vimrc file  (or to /etc/vim/vimrc to enable to the feature system-wide):

if has(“autocmd”)

au BufReadPost * if line(“‘\”") > 1 && line(“‘\”") <= line(“$”) | exe “normal! g`\”" | endif

endif

touch ~/.viminfo

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Tags: Linux, Troubleshooting, Ubuntu, Vim