farmergreg/vim-lastplace

Keep horizontal position

sobrinho opened this issue · 4 comments

sobrinho commented

Hi,

Would be nice to be able to keep the cursor position as well.

Example (_ is the cursor):

line
line _line
line

When we reopen the file, the cursor goes to the first position:

line
_line line
line

What you think?

One problem I see is that we would have to deal with lines where no longer large as the last position, in that case I think going to the last position would be okay.

farmergreg commented

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll take a look and see if/how this can be done.

farmergreg commented

I just took a look at this today, and the horizontal and vertical positions are indeed maintained correctly already. I tested this with Vim 7.4.1689 on a ubuntu-server virtual machine.

@sobrinho can you replicate your issue with a clean vim install? If so, please re-open this issue. Thanks!

lixiaoquan commented

I run into a similar issue and this is what I found. Tested on nvim 0.5 and vim 8.2 (2815)

  1. If the last position isn't near the end of the file, the plugin goes through this path and horizontal position will be kept

    vim-lastplace/plugin/vim-lastplace.vim

    Line 54 in d522829

    execute "normal! g`\""
  2. If the last position is near the end of the file, the plugin goes through this path and it always jump to the start of the line

    vim-lastplace/plugin/vim-lastplace.vim

    Line 68 in d522829

    execute "normal! \G'\"\<c-e>"

Even if I change line 68 the same way line 54 does, it still jump to the start of the line

execute "normal! g`\""