created January 31, 2005 · complexity basic · author Ivan Tishchenko · version 6.0
I often use vimsession-files to save set of options, buffers, etc, that are specific for each job (see :help :mksession). To save some additional settings, which are not saved in vimsession (like commands, autocommands, functions), I use vimsession-extra file. When I want to modify that extra-file, I had to type something like :new <c-r>=v:this_session<CR>, then edit commandline to get proper extra-file name and edit it. It was tiring. So I wrote this plugin:
command! -bar SessSave call SessSave() function! SessSave() if v:this_session=="" call confirm("There is no loaded session","&Ok",1) return endif if 2==confirm('Save session '.v:this_session.'?',"&No\n&Yes",1) exe 'mksession! '.v:this_session call confirm('Session '.v:this_session.' saved.','&Ok',1) endif endfunction function! SessExtraFname() if v:this_session=="" call confirm("There is no loaded session","&Ok",1) return '' endif return substitute(v:this_session,'\.[^.]*$','x.vim','') endfunction command! -bar SessExtraOpen exe 'new '.SessExtraFname() command! -bar SessExtraReread exe 'source '.SessExtraFname()
I also put following mapping there:
nmap <c-z>l :SessSave<CR>
Of course, you can change lhs to whatever you want, or add some extra mappings, for example for SessExtraOpen or SessExtraReread.
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See also VimTip238.
Taking in account that wonderful VimTip879 we may change definition of SessExtraOpen so that it sets up autocommand which will reload our extra-file each time we modify it:
command! -bar SessExtraOpen call SessExtraOpen() function! SessExtraOpen() exe 'new '.SessExtraFname() augroup SessAuGroup autocmd! let fn=SessExtraFname() if has("win32") let fn=substitute(fn,'\\\ze\S','/','g') endif execute "autocmd BufLeave ".fn." source ".fn augroup END endfunction