cga (?) wrote:
> > 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]
[...]
> > 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.
The description is clear, but I can't reproduce it.
You could at least upgrade to Vim 6.4, it includes many bug fixes. Or
skip ahead to Vim 7, it's very close to a release.
I have seen weird things happen with gcc optimization, you could try
compiling without -O2. This is just guessing though.
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