On Saturday, November 30, 2013 11:40:12 AM UTC+1, Paul Isambert wrote: > glts <[email protected]> a écrit: > > Paul, > > > > On Saturday, November 30, 2013 10:03:07 AM UTC+1, Paul Isambert wrote: > > > I’ve encountered a behavior which really smells like a bug, but I’d > > > like to check here beforehand to be sure: > > > > > > Go into linewise visual mode and leave it. Show the position of the '> > > > mark with: > > > > > > echo getpos("'>") > > > > > > It returns something like (if you were on line 23): > > > > > > [0, 23, 2147483647, 0] > > > > > > where the very big value for the column means you were in linewise > > > visual mode. Now try to set the '> mark with e.g.: > > > > > > echo setpos("'>", [0, 25, 12, 0]) > > > > > > “0” is echoed, meaning nothing went wrong. Use “getpos("'>")” again to see > > > the position of the mark, this time you’ll see: > > > > > > [0, 25, 2147483647, 0] > > > > > > The line was changed, but not the column. And it seems to happen > > > whenever the column number has that big value, i.e. whenever you went > > > into linewise visual mode. > > > > > > Am I missing something? > > > > I tripped over this myself in the past and posted it here as a bug. > > > > But it's documented behaviour. :h setpos(), the last paragraph: > > > > > This does not restore the preferred column for moving vertically. See > > > |winrestview()| for that. > > Thank you David. I’d seen that part without really reading it nor > understanding what it means. In particular, how does it explain that > “setpos()” doesn’t set the column if and only if the current column is > “infinite”, whereas it works ok otherwise? > > To put it another way, if “setpos()” is half useless, why does it > exit to begin with?
I answered too quickly, sorry. Now that I reread your description it does seem strange, I can't explain it. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" 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/groups/opt_out.
