On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 12:14 PM Yegappan Lakshmanan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > With 8.1.600 on macOS 10.11.6 (El Capitan), I confirm that the behavior Yegappan reported takes place against Terminal.app and iTerm2, while all of the GUI's running on XQuarz (= X11 for macOS), i.e., those using Athena, Motif, and GTK+ 2 and 3, don't Also, it might be worth noting that El Capitan's default Vim is 7.3, and that the old Vim showed the same behavior. > -- > -- > 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. -- -- 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.
