On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 1:59 AM Yegappan Lakshmanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am seeing that the cursor is displayed at an incorrect column > if I do the following (using the latest version of Vim on Mac): > > 1. Add an empty line to a buffer with a tab character followed by > a space at the beginning of the line. --- I assume you mean a new line, not an empty line (a tab and a space are not "empty"). > 2. Move the cursor to the end of this line. > 3. Press v to start visual mode > 4. Press o to jump to the other end of the visual selection --- the cursor doesn't move, since only the space is visually selected > 5. Extend the visual selection to the beginning of the line by pressing h --- the cursor moves to the tab, i.e. to the beginning of the line. Since in my Vim, 'selection' is set to "inclusive", both the tab and the space are visually selected. > 6. Press escape to cancel the visual selection --- the cursor remains at the beginning of the line. > > After this the cursor is positioned at the beginning of the line (it should > be positioned after the tab at column 8). Why do you think that pressing <Esc> should move the cursor? IMHO the cursor is and should be at the beginning of the line. > > Anyone else able to reproduce this? Yes, I can, but I don't regard it as faulty, see above. > > - Yegappan
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