I noticed a vim quirk where there's an extra blank line in the :messages output
after first entering and leaving insert mode. The next :echomsg after that
overwrites the blank line so there's no longer a blank line.
For example:
vim
:messages
Messages maintainer: Bram Moolenaar
i
:mes
Also discovered it only happens in nocompatible mode.
David
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:07 PM, David Barnett wrote:
> I noticed a vim quirk where there's an extra blank line in the :messages
> output after first entering and leaving insert mode. The next :echomsg
> after that overwrites the blan
On further experimentation, I've found that vim apparently always
overwrites a blank message:
:echomsg ''
:echomsg 'Foo'
:messages
Foo
So the overwriting is at least predictable even if it's surprising. But the
issue of having a blank message written in the first place when you enter
and l
