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Reputation: 1287

marks I have set are deleted periodically

My marks are randomly deleted while using gvim on my ubuntu machine.

For example, if I make some marks with ma and mb, tab away to firefox on another desktop, come back to gvim later and try to navigate to the marks 'a and 'b I get the error:

E20: Mark not set

What could be causing this to happen?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 90

Answers (1)

Martin Tournoij
Martin Tournoij

Reputation: 27822

It's difficult to be sure given the lack of details, but the most common reason for this is that the line was deleted.

For example with a buffer:

hello
world
test

And we add a mark on the third line (test).

If we now do ddoHello<Esc> this mark is removed, because the line was removed with dd. The mark is not restored if we add a new line 3.

There are some other scenarios where marks can get clobbered. e.g. when using Vp to replace the current line.

I suppose this could be considered both a feature and bug.

Upvotes: 1

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