On 06/10/08 21:38, Vladimir A. Pavlov wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 at 02:37 Richard Hartmann wrote: >> I would suggest adapting the helpfiles to reflect the above, though. > > I found the section called "VIEWING TABS" in the chapter 05.7 of the > standard vim manual. It contains the following: > >> :set listchars=tab:>-,trail:- > > with the explanation what the setting does. However there is no > word concerning cursor position there. That chapter seems to be the > best place to write how to emulate the "standard" cursor behaviour > in vim. But: > 1. it would be difficult for a novice who came from another editor > to find that place and he/she won't probably find the solution of > the problem. Are there better places?
What about under either or both of ":help 'list'" and ":help 'listchars'" instead? Wouldn't that be more "discoverable"? (And þese options are referenced from that 05.7 section.) > 2. is the solution in question correct on all platforms/terminals so > that we are allowed to add such a comment to the help file? It > works on x86 and x86_64 in xterm and linux terminals but what > about others? It works the same way in the GTK2 GUI, and I don't see why it wouldn't work the same way in other cases, including not only other Linux GUIs and terminals, but also Windows, Mac, Amiga, VMS, whatever... > >> Vladimir, I suspect Bram would accept a patch against the help. > > Bram, would you? > > -- > Vladimir Best regards, Tony. -- Please, won't somebody tell me what diddie-wa-diddie means? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
