Bill McCarthy wrote:
Hello Vim Developers,
Here's what the docs say:
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*^*
^ To the first non-blank character of the line.
|exclusive| motion.
*0*
0 To the first character of the line. |exclusive|
motion. When moving up or down, stay in same screen
column (if possible).
*<Home>* *<kHome>*
<Home> To the first character of the line. |exclusive|
motion. When moving up or down, stay in same text
column (if possible). Works like "1|", which differs
from "0" when the line starts with a <Tab>. {not in
Vi}
*bar*
| To screen column [count] in the current line.
|exclusive| motion.
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(1) The sentence starting with "When moving" (in the help
for both '0' and '<Home>' appears to also belong with
the help for '^'.
(2) The sentence starting with "Works like" (in the help for
'<Home>') does not appear to be correct. '<Home>'
appears to work like '0'. The movement is just like
'1|' (which is equivalent to '|') except for the
behavior of moving up or down.
(3) '0' and '<Home>' appear to be identical. Does anyone
see a difference?
(1) After ^ followed by jjjjj or kkkkk I see the cursor staying (as far as
possible) in the same _screen_ column regardless of preceding hard tabs. When
this would place the cursor halfway a tab, the cursor will shift temporarily,
and come back if you go on hitting j or k. This is normal behaviour when
moving up or down, so it doesn't need to be mentioned.
(2) Here, <Home> works like 1| (not like 0), see below.
(3) Yes I do. Notice the one mentions "the same _text_ column" and the other
"the same _screen_ column". Hit 0 on a line starting with a hard tab, then
jjjjj : Vim will try to keep the cursor in column 8 (except, of course, on
lines shorter than 1 tab or 8 other characters). After <Home> or 1| it would
try to keep the cursor in column 1 (if possible: when the first character on a
line is a hard tab the cursor will move temporarily to column 8).
I have
*motion.txt* For Vim version 7.0. Last change: 2006 Jun 18
[...] (next line is #170)
*0*
0 To the first character of the line. |exclusive|
motion. When moving up or down, stay in same screen
column (if possible).
*<Home>* *<kHome>*
<Home> To the first character of the line. |exclusive|
motion. When moving up or down, stay in same text
column (if possible). Works like "1|", which differs
from "0" when the line starts with a <Tab>. {not in
Vi}
*^*
^ To the first non-blank character of the line.
|exclusive| motion.
[...] (next line is #235)
*bar*
| To screen column [count] in the current line.
|exclusive| motion.
and
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0 (2006 May 7, compiled Dec 5 2006 22:18:11)
Included patches: 1-178
Compiled by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Huge version with GTK2-GNOME GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):
[etc.]
Best regards,
Tony.
