Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On Fr, 30 Mär 2012, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> >
> > Christian Brabandt wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, March 30, 2012 00:41, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > > > On 2012-03-29, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > > >> Bram,
> > > >>
> > > >> On Mi, 28 Mär 2012, Abu Yoav wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> [...]
> > > >> > I am editing a text file (latex). I prefer that each paragraph be a
> > > >> > long line, and that vim wrap the text. That's the usual behaviour,
> > > >> > and
> > > >> > that works fine. An option that seems very helpful is cursorline, so
> > > >> > I
> > > >> > set it (":set cul"). However, this does not do what I want. Namely,
> > > >> > instead of highlighting the *visual* line I am on, it highlights the
> > > >> > whole paragraph. Is there any way to highlight only the current
> > > >> > visual
> > > >> > line I am on? Again, a workaround would be to instruct vim to have
> > > >> > lines of at most 80 characters (say), but I don't want that.
> > > >>
> > > >> The help for 'cursorline' says:
> > > >>
> > > >> ,----
> > > >> | Highlight the screen line of the cursor with CursorLine
> > > >> `----
> > > >>
> > > >> While 'cul' has always been highlighting complete lines. Do you think,
> > > >> this would warrant a new option, that changes 'cul' to only highlight
> > > >> screen lines or change the option 'cul' to a string option, that can be
> > > >> set to 'screen' or 'line'?
> > > >>
> > > >> This might be helpful for long lines (e.g. when editing csv files and
> > > >> wrap is set).
> > > >>
> > > >> If not, the documentation should be updated.
> > > >
> > > > Or declare it a bug and fix the behavior to match the documentation.
> > >
> > > Well, here is a patch, that fixes it. I am not sure, whether this
> > > is a bug and this patch certainly makes 'cul' behave unexpectedly.
> > >
> > > Would be good, if some people try it out,
> > > because the screen drawing code looks frightening to me ;)
> >
> > I don't think we should change the current meaning of 'cursorline'.
> > What the original poster asked for is something else.
> >
> > Since 'cursorline' is a boolean option we can't change it to be more
> > than an on/off switch.
> >
> > That leaves adding Yet Another Option...
>
> Here is a patch, using 'cursorscreenline'. Seems to work so far.
> Additionally, it fixes a problem, that has been introduced with 7.3.479
> where the cursorline wasn't drawn, when the number or relativenumber
> option was set (line 3508 of screen.c) and removes an old leftover from
> option.c, which doesn't seem to be necessary.
Thanks. I'll check it out.
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