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31 <a href="#hold_position!.md" class="post-link" onClick="showPost('hold_position!.md')">Hold Position!</a>
32 <div id="hold_position!.md" class="post-text" style="display: none">
33 <p>Often times, when I run a vim command that makes &#8220;big&#8221; changes to a file (a
34macro or a <code>:vimgrep</code> command) I lose my original position and feel disoriented.</p>
35
36<p><em>Save position with <code>winsaveview()</code>!</em></p>
37
38<p>The <code>winsaveview()</code> command returns a <code>Dictionary</code> that contains information
39about the view of the current window. This includes the cursor line number,
40cursor coloumn, the top most line in the window and a couple of other values,
41none of which concern us.</p>
42
43<p>Before running our command (one that jumps around the buffer, a lot), we save
44our view, and restore it once its done, with <code>winrestview</code>.</p>
45
46<pre><code>let view = winsaveview()
47s/\s\+$//gc &quot; find and confirm replace trailing blanks
48winrestview(view) &quot; restore our original view!
49</code></pre>
50
51<p>It might seem a little overkill in the above example, just use &#8220; (double
52backticks) instead, but it comes in handy when you run your file through
53heavier filtering.</p>
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60 <div class="date">30/07 2019</div>
31 <a href="#get_better_at_yanking_and_putting_in_vim.md" class="post-link" onClick="showPost('get_better_at_yanking_and_putting_in_vim.md')">Get Better At Yanking And Putting In Vim</a> 61 <a href="#get_better_at_yanking_and_putting_in_vim.md" class="post-link" onClick="showPost('get_better_at_yanking_and_putting_in_vim.md')">Get Better At Yanking And Putting In Vim</a>
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1Often times, when I run a vim command that makes "big" changes to a file (a
2macro or a `:vimgrep` command) I lose my original position and feel disoriented.
3
4*Save position with `winsaveview()`!*
5
6The `winsaveview()` command returns a `Dictionary` that contains information
7about the view of the current window. This includes the cursor line number,
8cursor coloumn, the top most line in the window and a couple of other values,
9none of which concern us.
10
11Before running our command (one that jumps around the buffer, a lot), we save
12our view, and restore it once its done, with `winrestview`.
13
14```
15let view = winsaveview()
16s/\s\+$//gc " find and confirm replace trailing blanks
17winrestview(view) " restore our original view!
18```
19
20It might seem a little overkill in the above example, just use `` (double
21backticks) instead, but it comes in handy when you run your file through
22heavier filtering.
23