Bill McCarthy wrote:
On Mon 27-Nov-06 9:39pm -0600, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example, the word
Cat
When the cursor is on C, and I press vta, the cursor doesn't move.
However, if I press
vtt, it moves two characters to the right. Is this an intentional design
decision or a bug?
I've tried this in both vim 6.4 and the latest version of vim 7.0 on the
download page.
Works for me with gvim 7.0.168 with Gnome2 GUI on SuSE Linux 9.3, both in GUI
mode and in console mode
With the cursor on the C of Cat in Normal mode
after vta the cursor is on the C (i.e., one character left of the a), one
character is visually highlighted as shown at bottom right of the screen. (In
console mode the highlight color is not noticeable because the only character
of the Visual selection is at the cursor position.)
after (Esc to clear Visual mode, then) vtt the cursor is on the a (i.e., one
character left of the t), two characters (Ca) are visually highlighted.
With typical windows settings, select=exclusive (from
:behave mswin). With that, vta leaves the cursor to the
left of C and zero is shown in the lower right (vfC produces
identical results). However vtt highlights Ca and two is
shown in the lower right (vta produces identical results).
IIUC, vf or vt create the visual areas inclusively (to the looked-up character
or the one before it respectively), but then "selection=exclusive" interprets
any selection as exclusive (the last character of the visually highlighted
area is not included in the selection).
If this is true, I might venture that the behaviour is correct in the case of
vta (cursor ends up on the left of a, sel=exclusive interprets the selection
as zero-length) and incorrect (or not as advertised) in all other cases (vf
and vt produce identical results, instead of vt selecting one less character
than vf).
It seems that my choice of options, i.e.
" don't use mswin.vim
set selectmode=mouse,key
set mousemodel=popup
set keymodel=startsel
set selection=inclusive
(which is neither ":behave mswin" nor ":behave xterm" but some kind of
compromise between the two), was a lucky one.
Best regards,
Tony.
