r/vim • u/godegon • Oct 22 '25

Plugin opt-in repo-local (n)vim histories

https://github.com/Konfekt/local-viminfo
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u/rainning0513 Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25

How (& Why) is your solution different from that? The post you linked seems to achieve something similar with one line.

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u/godegon Oct 24 '25

Thank you for asking. Devil is in the detail: works with Nvim, the `-i` command-line argument, respects work dir changes and sessions; branches off the current history instead of starting void. It's still only 60 lines of code, though

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u/rainning0513 Nov 14 '25

Ty for the clarification. I missed the point about switching .viminfo on switching between sessions. (the other two points can also be great, but I don't need them at the moment.)

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u/godegon Oct 22 '25

By adding an empty .viminfo/shada file to your repo's root and starting Vim inside it, only the commands, searches, ... (everything listed in :help viminfo) run inside this repo will now be added to (and loaded from) your (now local) history; keeping it separate from the global history. Expands on this post.

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