Search code examples
vim

How and where is my viminfo option set?

As far as I can tell I don't set viminfo anywhere, yet it is set.

:verbose set viminfo?

prints

  viminfo='100,<50,s10,h,rA:,rB:
    Last set from ~/vimfiles/vimrc

But ~/vimfiles/vimrc doesn't set it.

Even if I let ~/vimfiles/vimrc set it to an arbitrary value, viminfo will still be set to '100,<50,s10,h,rA:,rB:.

Why is that and how can I set/unset viminfo?

Solution

  • I had the same problem too. It turn out that the viminfo option is overwritten by the nocompatible flag. Since it overwrite other option too, it is better to place "set nocompatible" at very start of your vimrc file. This solved my issue with viminfo configuration.