created by

Ingo Karkat

script type

utility

description

DESCRIPTION This plugin automatically persists (parts of) certain buffers when Vim is done editing the buffer, regardless of whether is was saved to a file or discarded. In this way, this is related to the built-in persistent-undo functionality, but rather meant for building a history of file contents to allow browsing and recall, especially for things like commit messages, where Vim is invoked as the editor from an external tool. SEE ALSO This plugin is used by: MessageRecall (vimscript #4116): Browse and re-insert previous (commit,                                  status) messages. USAGE The plugin is completely inactive until you set it up for a particular buffer through the following function; you'll find the details directly in the .vim/autoload/BufferPersist.vim implementation file. BufferPersist#Setup( BufferStoreFuncref, ... ) EXAMPLE Let's store the first three lines of each edited text file in the temp directory, using the text file's filename prefixed with "preview-":     function! BufferStore( bufNr )         return $TEMP . '/preview-' . fnamemodify(bufname(a:bufNr), ':t')     endfunction     autocmd BufNew,BufRead *.txt call BufferPersist#Setup(     \   function('BufferStore'),     \   {'range': '1,3'}     \)

install details

INSTALLATION This script is packaged as a vimball. If you have the "gunzip" decompressor in your PATH, simply edit the *.vba.gz package in Vim; otherwise, decompress the archive first, e.g. using WinZip. Inside Vim, install by sourcing the vimball or via the :UseVimball command.     vim BufferPersist.vba.gz     :so % To uninstall, use the :RmVimball command. DEPENDENCIES - Requires Vim 7.0 or higher.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
BufferPersist-1.10.vmb.gz	1.10	2024-10-03	7.0	Ingo Karkat	- ENH: Offer definition of a buffer-local command to persist the current buffer state on demand, via a:options.writeCommandName. - Minor: Make substitute() robust against 'ignorecase'. - Don't clobber the search history with the a:options.range (if given and using a /{pattern}/ address). - Add dependency to ingo-library (vimscript #4433). *** You need to separately install ingo-library (vimscript #4433) version 1.044 (or higher)! ***
BufferPersist.vba.gz	1.00	2012-06-25	7.0	Ingo Karkat	Initial upload

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