Save cursor position on write / exit

[cole-h]

Describe your feature request

In the same vein as https://gitlab.com/Screwtapello/kakoune-state-save, it would be fantastic if I didn't lose my place in a file every time I have to close and re-open it.

I'm unsure if it should be a plugin (once that's available), or built-in -- it's implemented as a plugin for kakoune, but it's built-in to vim (with the . and " registers).

[kirawi]

Something like #401?

[cole-h]

Maybe similar, but I don't care about saving and restoring splits / etc -- only the cursor position.

I suppose this could be considered a step towards that issue, though, since I imagine you'd want to save the cursor position inside those individual splits.

[archseer]

Yeah I was intending this with #401 (it needs a better description), I don't care about saving split layouts but we should save file positions, persistent undo history and possibly command history. I have my vim configured in a way that it automatically jumps to last used offset.

The implementation gets a bit tricky when you have multiple open instances running to the same state. See also neovim's implementation.

[cole-h]

Ah, OK. That being the case, I'll gladly close this in favor of that one.

[kirawi]

@archseer Not sure I'm educated enough about persistent state to write a good description for it.