Re: [bug #13734] viewer should save position & mode per file

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Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> thanks. however, i'd suggest enabling it by default. otherwise 95% of the
> users will never get to know this feature. nobody reads the mc man page unless

I'm not so sure. That's something I've been wondering about saving 
position in the editor ... do those entries ever time out? 10 years 
hence, how many deleted and temporary filenames will I have in my list? 
Maybe there should be a hotkey to disable this on the fly for any given 
file while it's open in the editor?

Sometimes I use it and it's great, but most of the time I'm in the habit 
of moving to the first line and first character before leaving any file.

Thus I have dozens of files listed with position "1;0" in filepos. Why 
are those saved at all? Would it be possible to save file position 
unless the position happens to be "1;0"? Even #utar and other such 
temporary files have their position saved.

Is there a limit to the number of lines in filepos, like, say, 
.bash_history has? And yes, I did look in the man page before asking. :)
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