On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:40:17PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> Srinath Avadhanula wrote:
>
> > I found the following difference in behavior between vim6 and vim7:
> >
> > 1. Open a buffer (vim -u NONE)
> > 2. :set encoding=utf8
> > 3. Type some stuff
> > 4. Type the following in insert mode:
> > <C-r>=substitute('foo', '.', "\<left>\<del>", 'g').'bar'
> > In vim6:
> > The last three characters are deleted and 'bar' is inserted in
> > their place.
> > In vim7:
> > A whole bunch of control codes are inserted instead of text being
> > deleted. In vim7, however, the following
> > <C-r>=repeat("\<left>\<del>", 3).'bar'
> > does delete the last three characters and inserts 'bar'
> >
> >
> > Note that with 'encoding' set to 'latin1', vim6 and vim7 both delete the
> > last three characters and insert 'bar'.
>
> I don't see the problem. I don't think this is system-dependent. I
> have no idea why it would fail for you...
There was a problem like this, specifically with encoding=utf8, but
it was fixed several versions ago. Srinath, can you post your full
:version output?
HTH --Benji Fisher
