Hi Tim!

On Di, 02 Sep 2014, Tim Chase wrote:

> On 2014-09-02 20:55, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > On Di, 02 Sep 2014, Tim Chase wrote:
> > > The documentation for 'sol' does mention "buffer changing
> > > commands" which could ambiguously be interpreted to mean that it
> > > should take effect when a file is opened for the first time
> > > (after all, it's changing from no-loaded-buffer to a
> > > now-loaded-buffer). I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call it a
> > > bug, but perhaps an unfortunate inconsistency or documentation
> > > ambiguity.
> > > 
> > > And I suspect that anybody who flies with 'nosol' set would be
> > > irked by the behavior much as you mention.  
> > 
> > I am not sure I follow. What exactly would you call a bug here?
> > 
> > I have set 'nosol' in my .vimrc for years and haven't noticed any
> > wrong behaviour.
> 
> To reproduce the OP's issue:
> 
> 1) create a new file with leading whitespace:
> 
>   $ echo "       x space at the beginning of this line" > example.txt
>   $ vim -u NONE example.txt
> 
> 2) notice that the cursor opens on the first non-whitespace character
> (the "x") with a bunch of whitespace to the left of the cursor.
> Cool, whatever.
> 
> 3) create a "nosol" vimrc and try using that:
> 
>    $ echo "set nocp nosol" > nosol.vim
>    $ vim -u nosol.vim example.txt
> 
> 4) notice that the cursor still lands on the first non-whitespace
> character rather than in column 0 (or 1 depending on how you count).
> 
> My "vim intuition" tells me that in example #4 with 'nosol' set, the
> cursor *shouldn't* move to the first non-whitespace.  I'm not exactly
> sure it's a *bug*, but it does run against that intuition and the
> documentation doesn't speak clearly one way or the other regarding
> the intended behavior in this situation.  The documentation for 'sol'
> does describe that the cursor should be kept in the same column when
> using "buffer changing commands (CTRL-^, :bnext, bNext, etc.)".
> 
> Additionally, in ":help editing.txt", under the argument-list section
> (with most of the buffer-manipulation commands such as ":wn",
> ":args", ":n", etc), the help says that
> 
>   """
>   If no [+cmd] argument is present, the cursor is positioned at the
>   last known cursor position for the file.  If 'startofline' is set,
>   the cursor will be positioned at the first non-blank in the line,
>   otherwise the last know column is used.  If there is no last known
>   cursor position the cursor will be in the first line (the last line
>   in Ex mode).
>   """
> 
> which hints that 'nosol' will *not* position the cursor on the
> first non-blank in the line.  It may not explicitly say so, but it
> does does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture
> furtively[1]. ;-)
> 
> [1] alluding to http://xkcd.com/552/ hover-text

Perhaps. I can reproduce your test case:

#v+
0 2116 chrisbra@debian ~/vim_test % vim -u NONE -N -i NONE <(printf '     x\n') 
-c 'set nosol t_ti= t_te= |:echo getpos(".")|:q!'
"/proc/self/fd/11" [fifo/socket] 1L, 7C
[0, 1, 6, 0]
0 2117 chrisbra@debian ~/vim_test % vim -u NONE -N -i NONE <(printf '     x\n') 
-c 'set sol t_ti= t_te= |:echo getpos(".")|:q!'
"/proc/self/fd/11" [fifo/socket] 1L, 7C
[0, 1, 6, 0]
#v-

BTW: nvi behaves the same here, it always positions the cursor on the 
first non-blank.

Best,
Christian
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  Marga Ritte 

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