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I know how to set the initial window size in gVim, but how do I get it to automatically restore the window dimensions from last session? Is this even possible?

Keith Pinson
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Edit: Corrected my answer. The mentioned winsize sessionoption only refers to the vim internal window layout, not the external dimensions.

If you use

:mksession

and load the session on vim startup with

gvim -S Session.vim

you can include the window position and size into the session by including winpos and resize in the sessionoptions, see

:help  'sessionoptions

With autocommands you could even automate the saving and restoring of the session on Vim entry and exit.

user55400
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    Thanks for the answer! I'm still quite new to Vim, so I'm not terribly experienced with autocommands. How would I get them to fire on entry and exit? – Charles Roper Feb 27 '09 at 14:38
  • See :help autocommand, especially the GUIEnter, VIMEnter, VIMLeave events look promising. – user55400 Feb 27 '09 at 14:42
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    Session saving also saves last opened files and tends to ignore these, when opening single files with Vim. There's a script in Wikia, which does it in a cleaner manner (i.e. without messing around with other session elements): http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Restore_screen_size_and_position – Andrei Sosnin Sep 09 '11 at 13:39
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These lines save and restore just the position and size:

set sessionoptions+=resize,winpos
autocmd VIMEnter * :source C:/session.vim
autocmd VIMLeave * :mksession! C:/session.vim
Keith Pinson
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Andrej Mitrović
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    This a nice idea, but session saving also saves last opened files and tends to ignore these, when opening single files with Vim. There's a script in Wikia, which does it in a cleaner manner (i.e. without messing around with other session elements): http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Restore_screen_size_and_position – Andrei Sosnin Sep 09 '11 at 13:37
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Additionally:

In your .vimrc:

set ssop+=resize,winpos,winsize,blank,buffers,curdir,folds,help,options,tabpages

Then, use the script from this article. It works beautifully!

Keith Pinson
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I had the same question, and to expand on the above answer, you can simply add the following to your .vimrc to get the behaviour you want:

set sessionoptions+=resize,winpos

see :h ssop

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gvim -geom 85x55

as in, putting this in your .bashrc:

alias G='gvim -geom 85x55'
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If you just want vim to open to the same size every time, you can edit your user's vimrc in C:/Users/<yourUserName>/_vimrc (this is preferred to editing the system _vimrc in your vim installation folder) to include the line set lines=<yourHeight> columns=<yourWidth>

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