On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Manuel Ortega <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> A recent patch (since 1507; I assume it was 1604) broke my preferred >> "showbreak" setting for text files. >> >> I have been setting showbreak to ↖ (U+2196 NORTH WEST ARROW). The glyph >> for this character still only occupies a single cell on my gvim, however it >> is treated as a wide character so it uses two screen cells (the second one >> is empty) and is not allowed in the 'showbreak' option. >> >> As far as I can tell most of the other arrow characters are still a >> single cell only, but the (NORTH|SOUTH) (EAST|WEST) ARROW characters are >> treated as double width. (RIGHT|LEFT)WARDS ARROW only take a single cell, >> so growing to take two cells when you rotate 45 degrees seems strange. >> >> Also double-width now are (LEFT|RIGHT)WARDS ARROW WITH HOOK, even though >> the very similar DOWNWARDS ARROW WITH (TIP|CORNER) (LEFT|RIGHT)WARDS >> characters are still single width. >> >> Any of these can obviously fit in a single cell in gvim at least. Do they >> cause problems elsewhere? >> > > I've noticed similar problems ever since the "emoji" option was > introduced. The crux seems to be that Vim is treating lots of non-emoji > multibyte chars (such as those mentioned) as if they were emoji. It messes > up the "w" normal mode command, and causes the cursor to be visually > displayed atop a character that isn't what's reflected by "ga". > > At least some of these worries can be fixed by setting "noemoji", but I > find it inexplicable that "emoji" is ON by default, given how it messes up > operating with non-emoji characters. > > Either Vim needs to only apply "emoji" to emoji, or it needs to not make > "emoji" on by default. > Ah, I see that the first of these two strategies has been taken. My previous problems appear to have been solved. Thanks for the fix! -Manny -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
