{"id":19190496,"url":"https://github.com/indigoparadox/vimsaver","last_synced_at":"2026-05-04T11:33:44.009Z","repository":{"id":226522304,"uuid":"768926696","full_name":"indigoparadox/vimsaver","owner":"indigoparadox","description":"A tool to preserve a set of screen tabs and vim buffers in vim sessions within those tabs","archived":false,"fork":false,"pushed_at":"2025-04-02T02:58:35.000Z","size":59,"stargazers_count":0,"open_issues_count":0,"forks_count":0,"subscribers_count":1,"default_branch":"master","last_synced_at":"2025-04-02T03:32:30.646Z","etag":null,"topics":["gnu-screen","ide","terminal","vim"],"latest_commit_sha":null,"homepage":"","language":"Python","has_issues":true,"has_wiki":null,"has_pages":null,"mirror_url":null,"source_name":null,"license":"gpl-3.0","status":null,"scm":"git","pull_requests_enabled":true,"icon_url":"https://github.com/indigoparadox.png","metadata":{"files":{"readme":"README.md","changelog":null,"contributing":null,"funding":null,"license":"COPYING","code_of_conduct":null,"threat_model":null,"audit":null,"citation":null,"codeowners":null,"security":null,"support":null,"governance":null,"roadmap":null,"authors":null,"dei":null,"publiccode":null,"codemeta":null,"zenodo":null,"notice":null,"maintainers":null,"copyright":null,"agents":null,"dco":null,"cla":null}},"created_at":"2024-03-08T01:40:03.000Z","updated_at":"2025-04-02T02:58:38.000Z","dependencies_parsed_at":"2024-03-08T02:45:27.801Z","dependency_job_id":"24102f0b-1e89-4175-b111-05f9e71ad02f","html_url":"https://github.com/indigoparadox/vimsaver","commit_stats":null,"previous_names":["indigoparadox/vimsaver"],"tags_count":0,"template":false,"template_full_name":null,"purl":"pkg:github/indigoparadox/vimsaver","repository_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/indigoparadox%2Fvimsaver","tags_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/indigoparadox%2Fvimsaver/tags","releases_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/indigoparadox%2Fvimsaver/releases","manifests_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/indigoparadox%2Fvimsaver/manifests","owner_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners/indigoparadox","download_url":"https://codeload.github.com/indigoparadox/vimsaver/tar.gz/refs/heads/master","sbom_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/indigoparadox%2Fvimsaver/sbom","scorecard":null,"host":{"name":"GitHub","url":"https://github.com","kind":"github","repositories_count":279005584,"owners_count":26083921,"icon_url":"https://github.com/github.png","version":null,"created_at":"2022-05-30T11:31:42.601Z","updated_at":"2022-07-04T15:15:14.044Z","status":"online","status_checked_at":"2025-10-10T02:00:06.843Z","response_time":62,"last_error":null,"robots_txt_status":"success","robots_txt_updated_at":"2025-07-24T06:49:26.215Z","robots_txt_url":"https://github.com/robots.txt","online":true,"can_crawl_api":true,"host_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub","repositories_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories","repository_names_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repository_names","owners_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners"}},"keywords":["gnu-screen","ide","terminal","vim"],"created_at":"2024-11-09T11:34:32.520Z","updated_at":"2026-05-04T11:33:44.002Z","avatar_url":"https://github.com/indigoparadox.png","language":"Python","funding_links":[],"categories":[],"sub_categories":[],"readme":"\n# VIMSaver\n\nA tool to preserve a set of tmux tabs and vim buffers in vim sessions within those tabs.\n\n## Setup\n\nThe following function is needed in the local .vimrc. The name of the function may be different, but it must then be specified with the -b option when running vimsaver.py.\n\n \u003e function! BufferList()\n \u003e\n \u003e    execute \"silent redir @m\"\n \u003e\n \u003e    execute \"silent buffers\"\n \u003e\n \u003e    execute \"silent redir END\"\n \u003e\n \u003e    let a=@m\n \u003e\n \u003e    return a\n \u003e\n \u003e endfunction\n\n## Usage\n\n**NOTE: the GNU screen multiplexer is currently broken due to changes in how the w command works in newer operating systems!**\n\nIn order to be preserved, vim sessions must be opened with a --servername. You might add `alias vimsn=\"vim --servername\"` to your .bash\\_aliases file, so you can type \"vimsn gridcity gridcity.c\" to open a vim session called gridcity with the file gridcity.c to start. Any additional tabs you open with :tabnew should then be preserved.\n\nMultiplexer sessions to be preserved should also be opened with a session name. This will use the default session name, vimsaver: e.g. `tmux new -s vimsaver` or `screen -S vimsaver`.\n\nIn order to restore a session, open the multiplexer with a session name and then simply run `./vimsaver.py load` (it will assume the default session name vimsaver, please see help for details).\n\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Findigoparadox%2Fvimsaver","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Findigoparadox%2Fvimsaver","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Findigoparadox%2Fvimsaver/lists"}