Stay at my cursor, boy!

vim-stay adds automated view session creation and restoration whenever editing a buffer, across Vim sessions and window life cycles. It also alleviates Vim's tendency to lose view state when cycling through buffers (via

argdo

bufdo

If you have wished Vim would be smarter about keeping your editing state, vim-stay is for you.

Installation

1. The old way: download and source the vimball from the releases page, then run

   :helptags {dir}

   on your runtimepath/doc directory. Updating the plug-in via

   :GetLatestVimScripts

   is supported. Or,
2. The plug-in manager way: using a git-based plug-in manager (Pathogen, Vundle, NeoBundle, Vim-Plug etc.), simply add

   zhimsel/vim-stay

   to the list of plug-ins, source that and issue your manager's install command. Or,
3. The Vim package way (requires Vim 7.4 with patch 1384): create a

   pack/vim-stay/start/

   directory in your

   'packagepath'

   and clone this repository into it. Run

   :helptags {dir}

   on the

   doc

   directory of the created repo. Run

   :runtime plugin/stay.vim

   to load vim-stay (or restart Vim).

Usage

Recommended:

set viewoptions=cursor,folds,slash,unix

set viewoptions-=options

Rationale

Keeping editing session state should be a given in an editor; unluckily, Vim's solution for this, view sessions, are not easily automated without encountering painful bumps. As the one plug-in available that aimed to fix this, Zhou Yi Chao’s restore_view.vim, limited itself to Vim editing sessions, didn’t play well with other position setting plug-ins like vim-fetch and as there were some issues with its heuristics, vim-stay was born.

License

vim-stay is licensed under the terms of the MIT license according to the accompanying license file.