On 31-Oct-2012 10:02:33 +0100, Marcin Szamotulski wrote:
> Dear Vim Dev,
>
> I recently found that v with count remembers the previous visual area.
> I found that it is not always true, which seems strange to me (is this
> a feature or a bug?). For example if I do "v{motion}y", then "1v", as
> should, selects the same are in the current position. But if I do
> "v{motion}<esc>" or "v{motion}<c-c>" then "1v" doesn't remember the
> last visual area but the previous one. With <esc>/<c-c> I thing it
> would be nice if <esc> could remember the last area and <c-c> don't
> (this already happens with some features: for example <c-c> doesn't
> trigger InsertLeave autocommands when leaving the insert mode.)
This has been discussed before:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vim_dev/381bdn3wuuM/discussion
>From Bram:
> > The idea of "1v" is that a Visual operation can be repeated at another
> > location. Thus the area is only stored when performing an operation.
Like you, some found this behavior unexpected, but we couldn't convince Bram to
change this (mostly to avoid breaking stuff that potentially relies on this
behavior), and no patches were put forward.
-- regards, ingo
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