Ben Schmidt wrote:
> >>>> Make a "Select line" selection on a line (triple click in Windows
> >>>> with default _vimrc). Extend the selection to the end of the file
> >>>> (Shift click in Windows)
> >>>>
> >>>> Delete
> >>>>
> >>>> A blank line is left at the end of the file (Windows or unix).
> >>>>
> >>>> No such problem with the equivalent "Visual line" selection and
> >>>> Delete.
> >
> > Hm, after thinking about it, I wouldn't consider this a bug as this
> > behaves exactly as it works in other Windows applications.
> > (e.g. take notepad, open a file and select a line until the end of the
> > file. If you delete the selection, you are left on a new line)
>
> I think it is a bug. That behaviour in other Windows apps is because
> they only have the concept of a characterwise selection. When you are in
> SELECT LINE mode rather than just SELECT mode, it should delete all the
> lines that are selected. The backspace key does the right thing; the
> delete key should, too.
>
> To reproduce this using the keyboard (which I find much easier!) move
> somewhere in the middle of a file and press:
>
> gH<C-O>G<Del>
If you do gH<Del> it deletes the line. It's only on the last line that
it makes the line empty. Let's call that a bug.
Someone who wants to fix this?
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