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Cool vim feature: sessions!

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source link: http://jvns.ca/blog/2017/09/10/vim-sessions/
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Cool vim feature: sessions!

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Yesterday I learned about an awesome vim feature while working on my vimrc! (to add fzf & ripgrep search plugins mainly). It’s a builtin feature, no fancy plugins needed.

So I drew a comic about it.

Basically you can save all your open files and current state with

:mksession ~/.vim/sessions/foo.vim

and then later restore it with either :source ~/.vim/sessions/foo.vim or vim -S ~/.vim/sessions/foo.vim. Super cool!

Some vim plugins that add extra features to vim sessions:

Here’s the comic:

vimsessions.png

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