> On 24 Aug 2025, at 10:40, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@???> wrote:
>
> 2) On Gentoo, vim would return to the line where it had been when I left
> the previous edit session. In Devuan. vim always starts at the first
> line.

Check the global vim config at /etc/vim/vimrc.

It has a few nice configs preset in there that you can uncomment to activate for all system users.

One of them being the setting you want for jumping to last position when reopening a file.

Or this should activate it for you:

sudo sed -i 's/"au BufReadPost/au BufReadPost/' /etc/vim/vimrc

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Tom