since dividing and loading each windows every time are kinda bothersome, I saved my session using:
mksession ~/session1.vim
and restored it using:
vim -S session1.vim
or
source session1.vim
it restores the previous session perfectly, but doesn't show any syntax highlighting at all.
I found a similar question over here: No syntax highlighting after session restore in terminal
but doesn't help much.
does anyone have any idea?
I had the same problem; if I saved sessions without 'options' in sessionoptions, when I reloaded Vim, the buffers were reloaded, but without syntax highlighting.
The solution is to use an autocmd with nested when reloading.
Wikia has an extensive article about loading and saving sessions. The 'nested' option is mentioned at the bottom.
I use a modified version of this StackOverflow answer, here it is:
fu! SaveSess()
execute 'mksession! ' . getcwd() . '/.session.vim'
endfunction
fu! RestoreSess()
if filereadable(getcwd() . '/.session.vim')
execute 'so ' . getcwd() . '/.session.vim'
if bufexists(1)
for l in range(1, bufnr('$'))
if bufwinnr(l) == -1
exec 'sbuffer ' . l
endif
endfor
endif
endif
endfunction
autocmd VimLeave * call SaveSess()
autocmd VimEnter * nested call RestoreSess()
set sessionoptions-=options " Don't save options