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Is it possible to get gVim to remember window size?

I know how to set the initial window size in gVim, but how do I get it to automatically restore the window dimensions from last session? Is this even possible?

Solution

  • Edit: Corrected my answer. The mentioned winsize sessionoption only refers to the vim internal window layout, not the external dimensions.

    If you use

    :mksession

    and load the session on vim startup with

    gvim -S Session.vim

    you can include the window position and size into the session by including winpos and resize in the sessionoptions, see

    :help  'sessionoptions

    With autocommands you could even automate the saving and restoring of the session on Vim entry and exit.