Hi Tony, On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 5:26 PM Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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"). >
Yes. I meant add the tab character and the space character in a new line. > > > 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. > Because you cannot position the cursor at the beginning of the line using any other Vim command. I am guessing that we are missing a cursor validation check in the code somewhere. Regards, Yegappan > > > > Anyone else able to reproduce this? > Yes, I can, but I don't regard it as faulty, see above. > > > > - Yegappan -- -- 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.
