Sung Pae wrote:
> The documentation explicitly states that moving the cursor is okay in
> an indentexpr, but this is only true when moved directly with cursor(),
> setpos(), search(), etc. Moving the cursor via `normal! w` has side
> effects that frustrate the attempts of get_expr_indent() to restore the
> original cursor position. However, this is not apparent without reading
> the source.
>
> For example:
>
> function! BadIndentExpr()
> normal! $
> return 8
> endfunction
> setlocal indentexpr=BadIndentExpr()
>
> The cursor position is not restored when indenting the current line.
I rather fix the problem than updating the documentation.
You say you read the source code, can you pinpoint why the cursor is not
restored when using :normal?
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