Preserve last editing position in VIM

Question

When I quit VIM and open the same file again, I am positioned at the start of the file. How can I preserve the last cursor position?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7894330/preserve-last-editing-position-in-vim

Answer 1

The "out of the box" .vimrc enables this with the statement:

source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim

You may just need to restore this statement in your .vimrc. In any case, see vimrc_example.vim and also see the line() function in the Vim manual for a discussion of how it works.