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Vim has a ~/.vim/view/ directory for storing file-specific settings, such as saved cursor position and any command manually ran while viewing a file. Sometime, when I would update and source my vimrc, my changes would be overwritten by the "cached" settings in view/, so it was necessary to delete the view file before my new vimrc could be sourced correctly in certain cases.

Where are the analogous view/ settings for neovim?

I removed a plugin from my init.vim, but the plugin is still loaded when I open project files. If I create and open a new file, my init.vim is sourced correctly. Thus, neovim must be caching old settings somewhere. How can I clear this cache?

Thank you in advance.

(FYI: I've been using vim for 4 years and switched to neovim about a month ago)

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  • Note that is "overriding" behavior should only happen if you have an autocommand that does :loadview, which I advise against for this reason :) sessions are better, IMO. Then there's also viminfo, which in neovim is called the shada file I think
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Commented Jan 12, 2022 at 14:50
  • I agree with your opinion completely. My problem was troublesome because I do not use loadview. The accepted answer by Matt is correct, but it turns out that my problem was not related to viewdir after all. I discovered a coc plugin (which I forgot I had) that was interfering with my other plugin. Removed the coc plugin and problem solved.
    – Eli
    Commented Jan 12, 2022 at 15:07

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See :h 'viewdir' and :set viewdir? This is the same option for both Vim and Neovim, but Neovim has different default settings.

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