On Apr 14, 5:28 am, Brian Victor wrote: > It appears from my testing (with code checked out with hg today) that > the offset parameter means different things in the netbeans insert > command than it does in the remove command. The Vim insert and remove > event offsets appear to match the remove command, but not the insert > command. The objective of this email is to ask: > > 1) Am I correct? > 2) If yes, is that intended? > 3) If no, may I submit a patch to make them mean the same thing?
I get the same results running your test with clewn in debug mode. So it seems to be a bug in the netbeans implementation of the insert command in Vim. A patch is welcome. About the concern for other implementations relying on this behavior, note that inserting a whole line does seems to work correctly. > Here's a shell command I use to test with vim: > > nc -l 3219 <<END > 1:editFile!1 "/tmp/test.txt" > 1:insert/2 0 "This is a line of text" > 1:remove/3 5 2 > 1:insert/4 5 "should be" > END > > Since the offset is the same on the removal and the insert, I would > expect the result to be: > > This should be a line of text > > Instead, the result is: > > This a line of textshould be > > Based on other tests, it appears that the insert command is interpreting > the offset as a line offset rather than a character offset. > > Given that the insert command offset is the only one that's different, > I'd like to see it changed to match the others. However, I'm not sure if > others are relying on the current behavior. > > And if nothing else, I'd like to give the doc page some love. It took me > several hours and a few gdb sessions to figure out how to get the > netbeans interface going, and I suspect I can save others the trouble I > went through. > > -- > Brian Xavier -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" 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
