Thus spake Bram Moolenaar on Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 03:24:50PM +0200 or
thereabouts: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-29 14:35]:
>
> cga (?) wrote:
>
> > Are there any peculiarities associated with the '-' dash character in
> > vim?
> >
> > I was experimenting with the '.' repeat command and I typed the
> > following:
> >
> > +--------------------+--------------------------------------------+
> > ! ! !
> >
> > followed by an <esc> and a '.'
> >
> > .. vaguely hoping to obtain this:
> >
> >
> > +--------------------+--------------------------------------------+
> > ! ! !
> > +--------------------+--------------------------------------------+
> > ! ! !
> >
> > .. in order to eventually create a table of two columns and n rows with
> > minimal effort/typing.
> >
> > Instead I got this:
> >
> > +--------------------+-------------------------------------------+
> > ! !
> > +--------------------+-------------------------------------------+
> > !¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬!¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬!!
> >
> > iow the spaces on the second line of what I originally entered are
> > replaced by the 'NOT' character - not present on the US keyboard.
> >
> > also the last of my exclamation points appears to have been removed
> > from what I originally typed and now four of them appear on the second
> > of the two lines added by the '.' command
> >
> > naturally, I could use shift-V followed by a number of 'yp's to obtain
> > what I am looking for but I was just curious where this NOT ('¬' - 0xac)
> > character comes into the picture - and whether there is more to it
> > than the above triviality.
>
> Weird. I can't reproduce it.
>
> What version of Vim?
VIM - Vi IMproved 6.3 (2004 June 7, compiled Jul 30 2005 12:40:41)
Included patches: 1-71, 81-82
Compiled by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Big version with GTK2 GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):
+arabic +autocmd +balloon_eval +browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent
+clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments
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+ex_extra +extra_search +farsi +file_in_path +find_in_path +folding -footer
+fork() +gettext -hangul_input +iconv +insert_expand +jumplist +keymap +langmap
+libcall +linebreak +lispindent +listcmds +localmap +menu +mksession
+modify_fname +mouse +mouseshape +mouse_dec +mouse_gpm -mouse_jsbterm
+mouse_netterm +mouse_xterm +multi_byte +multi_lang +netbeans_intg -osfiletype
+path_extra -perl +postscript +printer +python +quickfix +rightleft -ruby
+scrollbind +signs +smartindent -sniff +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax
+tag_binary +tag_old_static -tag_any_white -tcl +terminfo +termresponse
+textobjects +title +toolbar +user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual
+visualextra +viminfo +vreplace +wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writebackup
+X11 -xfontset +xim +xsmp_interact +xterm_clipboard -xterm_save
system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_GTK -DXTHREADS
-I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/X11R6/include
-I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -O2 -g -Wall
-I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/python2.3 -pthread
Linking: gcc -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib -o vim -Wl,--export-dynamic
-lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangoxft-1.0
-lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lXt
-lncurses -lgpm -L/usr/lib/python2.3/config -lpython2.3 -lutil -lm -Xlinker
-export-dynamic
> What system?
Linux turki 2.4.27.060305-2 #1 Sun Mar 5 03:40:55 EST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
> Console or GUI?
xterm (256 colors) + gnu/screen
Note: I was able to reproduce the same behavior under a plain 8/16
color term (aterm) outside gnu/screen so these aspects are probably not
relevant.
> What is 'encoding' set to?
set encoding?
encoding=latin-1
Another example:
1. abc
---
1¬¬abc
¬¬¬---
What I did:
. 'o' to open a new empty line after 'example:' (I was in normal mode)
. Escape and 'i' so vim 'forgets' about what I typed before.. then:
. I typed '1. abc' + Enter
. I typed three spaces and three dashes
. I hit Enter twice - cursor was indented to line up with the first dash
. I hit Escape - the cursor was back in column 1
. I hit '.'
Now an interesting side-effect of the above is that if I try to undo
this by hitting 'u' twice, there remains one '¬' a couple of lines
below my last 'sane' line ('Another example:').
Compare with:
abc
---
abc
---
I used pretty much the same actions as in the first example - ('o' to
open a new line, escape, 'i', typed abc, carriage return, three dashes,
carriage return, carriage return, escape, followed by the '.' command.
In this instance everything appears to work as expected - so it's not
the dash by itself - maybe the dot '.' has something to do with it..
maybe it's because my dashes in the first example are indented.. not
sure.
>
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