Eric Arnold wrote: > Does anybody understand why trailing spaces in an "echon" string don't > actually show up? > > echon "\ngimme " > let inp = getchar() > echon nr2char(inp)
It appears this is because getchar() doesn't flush the output and position the cursor. Try this patch: *** ../../vim-7.0.017/src/eval.c Sat May 13 13:36:47 2006 --- eval.c Sat Jun 17 15:28:15 2006 *************** *** 9792,9797 **** --- 9792,9801 ---- varnumber_T n; int error = FALSE; + /* Flush any pending messages and position cursor. */ + out_flush(); + windgoto(msg_row, msg_col); + ++no_mapping; ++allow_keys; if (argvars[0].v_type == VAR_UNKNOWN) -- Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org ///