Justin Keyes wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Charles E Campbell
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Ben Fritz wrote:
> >> On Friday, January 8, 2016 at 2:33:04 AM UTC-6, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> >>> Having said that, I personally don't like the <restore> argument as
> >>> well. Perhaps we could use a new command modifier like
> >>> :keeppos windo ...
> >>>
> >>> That could be useful for other commands as well.
> >>>
> >> I like that idea better as well.
> >>
> > I, too, like the "keeppos" (short for keepposn?) command modifier.
> >
> > I agree that one shouldn't change the default behavior due to backwards
> > compatability considerations. My own plugins typically do a
> > save&restore position and so wouldn't be affected by whether or not that
> > default behavior changed.
>
> It would not make sense for a plugin to depend on the current behavior
> because the current behavior is unpredictable: if an error occurs the
> cursor could end up anywhere; and the contents of each buffer are
> unpredictable.
>
> So again I ask, can anyone name one reasonable, realistic scenario
> where a plugin would break by fixing this long-standing pain-point? I
> think that "backwards compatibility" has become the easy way out of
> giving extra thought to making the occasional bold decision in favor
> of usability.
Then current behavior ends up on where the last change was done. That
can be useful. Especially for :argdo, where there very well would not
be a change at the cursor, or even in the current buffer. E.g.:
:argdo %s/\<that_var\>/\<thatVar\>/g
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