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Michael
Michael

Reputation: 527

Make NERDTree open a file where the cursor was last

One thing I find really annoying with NERDTree is that when I am opening a file that I just looked at five minutes ago, the file is opened at the very beginning as opposed to where the cursor was last.

I don't have this problem if I use the :b buffer list to open the file (it was already opened once), because I am transported directly to the place where my cursor was last. This is helpful because my source files are big.

Is there a way to make NERDTree look in the buffer list first to see if the file has already been opened? Or maybe there is some other way to solve my problem?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 908

Answers (2)

IvanM
IvanM

Reputation: 3053

Try this, it does restore the last position of cursor

set hidden

Upvotes: 1

Prince Goulash
Prince Goulash

Reputation: 15715

Inspired by this Vim tip I have the following in my vimrc, which will automatically move the cursor to its last position when it is opened. It seems to work fine with NERDTree

au BufReadPost *
     \ if line("'\"") > 1 && line("'\"") <= line("$") |
     \   exe "normal! g`\"" |
     \ endif

Note that the cursor position is stored in your viminfo file, and so the viminfo option much be set appropriately. I think the default value is fine.

Upvotes: 5

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