Dominique Pelle wrote: > Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > >> It would be nice. As it is, many of the lines in help files > >> jiggle back and forth as the cursor moves through them. It's very > >> distracting. I would rather have the markup characters not > >> concealed at all. > > > > Yes, we were discussing that in another thread. > > > > I thought of a solution, it's not completely finished yet: > > - Add the 'concealcursor' option. When on the cursor line is also > > concealed. It would be set in help files. > > - When moving the cursor around, the cursor line is always updated, also > > when moving horizontally. The cursor position is then corrected while > > redrawing, which is where we know what is concealed. > > - We probably should not conceal the cursor line in Insert mode. > > Possibly also not in Visual mode. > > - When searching or moving around vertically the cursor will show up in > > the right place. > > - When moving the cursor right-left it will "stick" in one position when > > going over concealed items. > > - When copying a word that is not next to concealed text it should work > > OK. When copying text just next to concealed text you don't know > > exactly what you will get. > > > > Adding the 'concealcursor' option, with the short name 'cocu', makes the > > short name for "conceallevel' a bit strange: 'conc'. I think it's > > better to rename it to 'cole'. > > > > Vince, any remarks? > > > > Perhaps 'concealcursor' should not be a boolean, but indicate the modes > > in which it's OK to conceal the cursor line, thus "nv" would mean to > > conceal the cursor line in Normal and Visual modes. Makes it more > > complicated to use though. > > > > We need to decide about this really soon, otherwise the Vim 7.3 release > > would be delayed. > > > Another thing slightly counter intuitive with conceal feature > and help pages: > > - I open a help page with :help > Help window has conceallevel=2 > - I split the help window with :split > - I now have 2 help windows: > one with conceallevel=2 > the other one with conceallevel=0 > > Wouldn't it better if both help windows had conceallevel=2 ?
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