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author | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2020-09-19 20:18:06 +1200 |
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committer | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2020-09-19 20:18:06 +1200 |
commit | f8a8c741b91f636538a0083a8b60cf17dfd24606 (patch) | |
tree | 1e8fcdf7e4af2664ad224e45a145b5f32e9b98fb /vim | |
parent | Merge branch 'release/v10.9.0' into develop (diff) | |
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Lower 'history' to 300 to keep startup snappy
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 11 deletions
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ " Tom Ryder (tejr)’s Literate Vimrc " ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ " -" Last updated: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:04:53 UTC +" Last updated: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 08:17:28 UTC " " │ And I was lifted up in heart, and thought " │ Of all my late-shown prowess in the lists, @@ -193,16 +193,14 @@ if s:xdgcachehome !=# '' endif " Speaking of recorded data in viminfo files, the default Vim limit of a mere -" 50 entries for command and search history is pretty stingy. Because I don’t -" think I’m ever likely to be in a situation where remembering several -" thousand Vim commands and search patterns is going to severely tax memory, -" let alone disk space, I’d rather this limit were much higher. It’s -" sometimes really handy to dig up commands from many days ago. -" -" The maximum value for the 'history' option is documented in ‘:help -" 'history'’ as 10000, so let’s just use that, and see if anything breaks. -" -set history=10000 +" 50 entries for command and search history is pretty stingy. The documented +" maximum value for this option is 10000. I used that for a while, but +" eventually found that on lower-powered machines, keeping this much command +" history slowed Vim startup down a bit much for my liking, so I've scaled +" this back to a more conservative 300. If I end up missing useful commands, +" I might try switching this on available memory instead. +" +set history=300 " We’ll now enable automatic backups of most file buffers, since that’s off by " default. In practice, I don’t need these backups very much, at least if I’m |