Gary Johnson wrote:
> There is a bug in Vim's tracking of the wanted cursor column in the
> cursorbind feature. I believe that the attached patch fixes it.
>
> Vim keeps track of the desired or wanted cursor column as well as
> the actual cursor column. When the user moves the cursor to a
> different line and the wanted cursor column value is not stale, Vim
> tries to move the cursor to that wanted column. When 'cursorbind'
> is set, that wanted cursor column information is not being copied
> from the active window to the other cursorbound windows, resulting
> in the cursor jumping to seemingly random columns when moving the
> cursor up or down following a jump to a different window.
>
> To demonstrate this, start vim as "vim -N -u NONE" and execute the
> following.
>
> :set cursorbind
> a123456789<Esc>
> Yp
> :vnew
> PP
>
> Now move the cursor to column 5 and move the cursor to the other
> window:
>
> 4l
> <C-W><C-W>
>
> The cursor will be at column 5 of the other window, as expected.
> Now move the cursor to column 6 and move back to the original
> window.
>
> l
> <C-W><C-W>
>
> The cursor will be at column 6, again as expected. Now move the
> cursor down a line.
>
> j
>
> The cursor will move to row 2 but to column 5 instead of column 6.
Thanks for the patch. I'll include it.
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