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@@ -6770,10 +6770,14 @@ A jump table for the options with a short description can be found at |Q_op|.
e.g., for Unix: "r/tmp". Case is ignored. Maximum length of
each 'r' argument is 50 characters.
*viminfo-s*
- s Maximum size of an item in Kbyte. If zero then registers are
- not saved. Currently only applies to registers. The default
- "s10" will exclude registers with more than 10 Kbyte of text.
- Also see the '<' item above: line count limit.
+ s Maximum size of an item contents in KiB. If zero then nothing
+ is saved. Unlike Vim this applies to all items, except for
+ the buffer list and header. Full item size is off by three
+ unsigned integers: with `s10` maximum item size may be 1 byte
+ (type: 7-bit integer) + 9 bytes (timestamp: up to 64-bit
+ integer) + 3 bytes (item size: up to 16-bit integer because
+ 2^8 < 10240 < 2^16) + 10240 bytes (requested maximum item
+ contents size) = 10253 bytes.
Example: >
:set viminfo='50,<1000,s100,:0,n~/vim/viminfo
@@ -6782,7 +6786,8 @@ A jump table for the options with a short description can be found at |Q_op|.
edited.
<1000 Contents of registers (up to 1000 lines each) will be
remembered.
- s100 Registers with more than 100 Kbyte text are skipped.
+ s100 Items with contents occupying more then 100 KiB are
+ skipped.
:0 Command-line history will not be saved.
n~/vim/viminfo The name of the file to use is "~/vim/viminfo".
no / Since '/' is not specified, the default will be used,