On 07/02/09 05:19, James Vega wrote: > On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 04:48:16AM +0100, Tony Mechelynck wrote: >> On 07/02/09 04:10, Brian Carper wrote: >>> When you have cursorcolumn set and you go into Visual Block mode, the >>> background highlighting for cursorcolumn overrides the background >>> highlighting for visual mode. This makes it difficult to see what's >>> selected in the column containing the cursor (especially if you move >>> the cursor up/down before moving it left/right). >>> >>> It seems like entering Visual mode should disable the highlighting for >>> cursorcolumn, similarly to how it disables the highlighting for >>> cursorline. >>> >>> e.g. something vaguely similar to (but probably not exactly) this: >> I think it's a feature. In Block Visual mode, the cursor is always at >> one corner of the block, and its row and column are included in the >> block (or rather, the part which is along the sides of the block-visual >> area). So there is no ambiguity in having the coc highlight overlay the >> block visual highlight, unless maybe the block is only one column wide. > > Whether it's a feature or a bug, the behavior is inconsistent. It would > seem that either both 'cuc' and 'cul' should be enabled or neither > should. >
I think I remember Bram telling me some months ago that it's intentional and a kind of compromise. I don't remember the details out of my head but you might want to google the list archives. Best regards, Tony. -- "When I die, I want a tombstone that says "GAME OVER" - Ton Richters --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
