On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 05:14:38PM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote: > On Tue, April 19, 2011 4:30 pm, Randy Morris wrote: > > I may have found a bug in indenting behavior depending on whether or not > > 'list' is set. Can someone try to reproduce and/or explain what is > > happening if it's not a bug? > > > > <snip> > > That looks like some obscure vi behaviour, that is triggered in > 'compatible' mode. That should go away, if you start vim with the > -N argument (meaning to no start vim in vi-compatible mode). > > This behaviour is mentioned briefly in the help at > :h cpo-L > > Looking at the help I don't know, whether this is a feature or a bug. > At least it is not clear to me, how this is supposed to work.
That explains it. I forgot that nocompatible is not set when you start vim with -u. Usually the presence of .vimrc takes care of setting that for me. I'll chalk this one up to a briefly documented oddity. I'm not sure why one would ever want this behavior. Thanks. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
