On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 05:56:19PM +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> On 4/16/06, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Nikolai Weibull wrote:
>
> > > :x.
> > >
> > > and again position the cursor over/at the trailing space. Again execute
> > >
> > > :echo expand('<cWORD>')
> > >
> > > The expansion will be ':x.'.
> >
> > I don't see this, the result is empty both times. Are you sure the
> > cursor wasn't on the "."?
>
> Yes. Perhaps this was an issue in
>
> VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0b BETA (2006 Mar 24, compiled Mar 26 2006 13:06:54)
>
> so I guess I should upgrade...
>
> If you don't see it then hopefully everything is fine :-).
I just compiled vim 7.0e (Normal features, default "make" on FC2
Linux) and I see the same thing that Nikolai described. Note that his
first trial has leading and trailing spaces; the second trial only a
trailing one. I also tried the line
:x. :y.
and carefully placed the cursor on the trailing space. I got ":x."
again! With the cursor on the first space, I get ":y.", which seems
reasonable. (I have never liked the phrase in the docs, "the WORD under
the cursor." I think of the cursor as being on a character, and a word
or WORD may start there ...)
HTH --Benji Fisher
