On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > I ran into difficulty trying to automatically format C-style comments without > a middle part. I was trying to set formatoptions automatically depending on > whether the cursor was inside a comment or not. > > My problem was that when in insert mode at the end of a line (e.g. after > using 'A'), synID() always returns zero, even if the comment region extends > onto the next line. > > I worked around the issue by using col('.')-1 instead of just col('.') if I'm > in insert mode...but why do I need to do that? > Maybe because in Insert mode at the end of the line, the cursor is one past the last character on the line?
How exactly do you call synID()? In a script or at i_CTRL-O on the command line? Or in a mapping? Tests I did here were inconclusive. Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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/d/optout.
