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How to open the file from last place I was in it

Say I opened file X.
then I scrolled down to line number 50 then I made some modifications and closed the file.
when I re-open the file. I want Vim to save the last location in this file (line 50) and puts me in this line automatically.

This feature existed by default. I don't know the name of this feature, so I couldn't google for it. I think I lost it because some plugins have installed later.
How I re-enable this feature again? Thanks.

Solution

  • This is done by $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim, also explained under :h restore-cursor.

    But it's not hard to add this feature yourself:

    augroup vimStartup | au!
    autocmd BufRead * call setpos('.', getpos("'\""))
augroup end