Ingo Karkat wrote:
> :startinsert should work like typing "i" in Normal mode (according to
> the help). I found a small discrepancy while developing a custom
> mapping:
>
> vim -N -u NONE
> ifoo<Esc>
> :echo string(@.) getpos("'[") getpos("']")
> 'foo' [0, 1, 1, 0] [0, 1, 4, 0]
> i<Esc>
> :echo string(@.) getpos("'[") getpos("']")
> '' [0, 1, 3, 0] [0, 1, 3, 0]
> :quit!
>
> Contrast with:
>
> vim -N -u NONE
> :startinsert
> foo<Esc>
> :echo string(@.) getpos("'[") getpos("']")
> 'foo' [0, 1, 1, 0] [0, 1, 4, 0]
> :startinsert
> <Esc>
> :echo string(@.) getpos("'[") getpos("']")
> 'foo' [0, 1, 1, 0] [0, 1, 4, 0]
> :quit!
>
> Note how neither register . nor the change marks are updated when using
> :startinsert and no insertion took place (i.e. input mode was immediately left
> via <Esc>).
>
> Reproducible on Vim 7.3.000 (Windows 7, x86 and x64) as well as the latest
> 7.3.535 (big version, Linux/x86).
Well, why does the difference matter?
It won't be easy to change.
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