Bug#635984: Please provide a way to disable persistent netrw history

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Fri Jul 29 23:12:01 UTC 2011


Package: vim
Version: 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2+b1
Severity: normal

Every time I open a directory in vim, I end up with a file
~/.vim/.netrwhist .  I'd like to disable that persistent history, but as
far as I can tell vim doesn't provide an option to do so.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages vim depends on:
ii  libacl1   2.2.51-3                       Access control list shared library
ii  libc6     2.13-11                        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgpm2   1.20.4-3.4                     General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libncurse 5.9-1                          shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libselinu 2.0.98-1.1                     SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  vim-commo 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2+b1 Vi IMproved - Common files
ii  vim-runti 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2    Vi IMproved - Runtime files

vim recommends no packages.

Versions of packages vim suggests:
pn  ctags                         <none>     (no description available)
pn  vim-doc                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  vim-scripts                   <none>     (no description available)

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