Hi James!
On Sa, 26 Jan 2013, James McCoy wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 04:07:32PM +0100, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > Hi James!
> >
> > On Sa, 26 Jan 2013, James McCoy wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 03:17:16PM +0100, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > > > Bram,
> > > > when visual mode is active and one is jumping to another position
> > > > using :<nr> visual mode is unexpectedly ended.
> > >
> > > Why is this unexpected? You've changed from visual to cmdline mode.
> > > The indication of visual mode is an aid to see the area on which you're
> > > operating.
> >
> > Because I started visual mode and wanted it to highlight far down to a
> > specific line which was several hundreds lines down. So I entered like
> > always :1500 and visual mode ended. This was not nice ;)
>
> 1500G would be how I would recommend doing that, but I've seen other
> people try :# before. I'll leave it up to Bram on whether that should
> work or not.
indeed 1500G should have worked. I just haven't thought about it, since
I usually use the :# ex command.
But its fair enough. I just found it unexpected and think it is more
logically.
regards,
Christian
--
Die Erde als Erde ist auch dem Sinnlichsten nichts, sondern seine
Ideen darüber.
-- Jean Paul
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