" Tell vim to remember certain things when we exit " '100 : marks will be remembered for up to 100 previously edited files " "20000: will save up to 20,000 lines for each register " :200 : up to 200 lines of command-line history will be remembered " % : saves and restores the buffer list " n... : where to save the viminfo files set viminfo='100,\"20000,:200,%,n~/.viminfo