Hi Axel!
On Di, 27 Sep 2016, Axel Bender wrote:
> There's no direct connection. It was however the origin of my
> "troubles". The main problem - meanwhile - is the behavior of
> setpos()/getpos(). When setting "'<" and "'>" vim takes into
> consideration the last Visual mode, which is not what I would have
> expected (and haven't found any documentation about, for that matter).
> Instead, I would have thought, that setting the positions with
> setpos() would sharply define my selection area (regardless of what
> Visual mode was active before). Therefore my suggestion.
That doesn't work, because how should gv "know" whether you wanted
linewise, charwise or block mode? That cannot be guessed from setting
only the positions of the visual mode.
You always need to set the mode first.
That is no bug.
Best,
Christian
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