How to save registers in VIM [closed]

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I am new to VIM and I use the command

qa

to start recording the operations in register a and the following command

q

to stop saving. And the following command to use the operations in a:

@a

But the problem is that, when I close the VIM, all these registers are deleted. Is there any way to save these operations and use it later in other sessions of VIM?

Answer 1

If you don't run Vim in compatible mode (only masochists would run Vim in compatible mode), named registers, "a to "z, are remembered across sessions.

Do you run Vim without a ~/.vimrc? What is the output of :set viminfo? :set compatible? (with the question mark)?

Answer 2

You could create a map in your .vimrc

map <F2> [your macro]

If the macro is already at register 'a', you can also use it, that is, instead of repeating [your macro], you can type <C-r>a while in insert mode.

You could also try marvim.