Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> I think that find_ident_at_pos contains a bug. The thing is that
> expand("<cWORD>") expands to a non-empty string if positioned over a
> whitespace character after a WORD at the start of a line, but to an
> empty string anywhere else. I doubt that this is intentional, but it
> seems that at least the rubycomplete.vim script and the
> pythoncomplete.vim script assume that it always expands to a non-empty
> string, and perhaps we need to keep this behavior for backwards
> compatability. The problem can be remedied in the scripts by backing
> the cursor up to the actual word, but that's not a very good solution.
>
> To try it out, put the following in an empty buffer:
>
> :x.
>
> And position the cursor over/at the trailing space. Then execute
>
> :echo expand('<cWORD>')
>
> The expansion will be empty.
>
> Now, change the buffer to contain only
>
> :x.
>
> and again position the cursor over/at the trailing space. Again execute
>
> :echo expand('<cWORD>')
>
> The expansion will be ':x.'.
I don't see this, the result is empty both times. Are you sure the
cursor wasn't on the "."?
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