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| 37 | Hold Position! | 37 | Hold Position! |
| 38 | </h1> | 38 | </h1> |
| 39 | <div class="post-text"> | 39 | <div class="post-text"> |
| 40 | <p>Often times, when I run a vim command that makes “big” changes to a file (a | 40 | <!DOCTYPE html> |
| 41 | macro or a <code>:vimgrep</code> command) I lose my original position and feel disoriented.</p> | 41 | <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="" xml:lang=""> |
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| 46 | <title>hold_position!</title> | ||
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| 60 | <p>Often times, when I run a vim command that makes “big” changes to a file (a macro or a <code>:vimgrep</code> command) I lose my original position and feel disoriented.</p> | ||
| 43 | <p><em>Save position with <code>winsaveview()</code>!</em></p> | 61 | <p><em>Save position with <code>winsaveview()</code>!</em></p> |
| 44 | 62 | <p>The <code>winsaveview()</code> command returns a <code>Dictionary</code> that contains information about the view of the current window. This includes the cursor line number, cursor coloumn, the top most line in the window and a couple of other values, none of which concern us.</p> | |
| 45 | <p>The <code>winsaveview()</code> command returns a <code>Dictionary</code> that contains information | 63 | <p>Before running our command (one that jumps around the buffer, a lot), we save our view, and restore it once its done, with <code>winrestview</code>.</p> |
| 46 | about the view of the current window. This includes the cursor line number, | ||
| 47 | cursor coloumn, the top most line in the window and a couple of other values, | ||
| 48 | none of which concern us.</p> | ||
| 49 | |||
| 50 | <p>Before running our command (one that jumps around the buffer, a lot), we save | ||
| 51 | our view, and restore it once its done, with <code>winrestview</code>.</p> | ||
| 52 | |||
| 53 | <pre><code>let view = winsaveview() | 64 | <pre><code>let view = winsaveview() |
| 54 | s/\s\+$//gc " find and (confirm) replace trailing blanks | 65 | s/\s\+$//gc " find and (confirm) replace trailing blanks |
| 55 | winrestview(view) " restore our original view! | 66 | winrestview(view) " restore our original view!</code></pre> |
| 56 | </code></pre> | 67 | <p>It might seem a little overkill in the above example, just use `` (double backticks) instead, but it comes in handy when you run your file through heavier filtering.</p> |
| 57 | 68 | </body> | |
| 58 | <p>It might seem a little overkill in the above example, just use `` (double | 69 | </html> |
| 59 | backticks) instead, but it comes in handy when you run your file through | ||
| 60 | heavier filtering.</p> | ||
| 61 | 70 | ||
| 62 | </div> | 71 | </div> |
| 63 | 72 | ||