Is there a way to quit Vim so that it will load the same session next time?

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Sometimes I have Vim running with a good number of tabs, buffers, etc, but I need to quit to reboot, install a new Vim version, etc.

But when I start Vim back up I want the same tabs, split windows, with the same files open in them.

Is there any way to do this? Does Vim have a concept of "sessions"?

(I'm not worried about tabs or buffers that contained contents not loaded from files.)

i think this is already answered here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642611/how-to-save-a-session-in-vim — epoyraz, Dec 29 '13 at 12:23
@epoyraz: You, sir, are more useful than the **Related** section (-: — hippietrail, Dec 29 '13 at 12:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 29 '13 at 13:33

Yeah of course VIM knows session managment :)

From the vim doc :

A Vim session contains all the information about what you are editing. This includes things such as the file list, window layout, global variables, options and other information. (Exactly what is remembered is controlled by the 'sessionoptions' option, described below.) The following command creates a session file:

:mksession vimbook.vim

Later if you want to restore this session, you can use this command:

:source vimbook.vim

Check out this tuto about this functionnality : http://usevim.com/2013/07/05/sessions/

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 29 '13 at 13:46

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Make a session in Vim:

:mksession session.vim

In terminal, restore session:

$ vim -S session.vim

Or when already in Vim, restore session:

:source session.vim

answered Dec 29 '13 at 13:46

Stefan van den Akker

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Is there a way to quit Vim so that it will load the same session next time?

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