On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 1:14:28 PM UTC-5, glts wrote: > No responses so far, perhaps I was a little long-winded. I'm reporting > on what I think is a bug in Vim 7.3. > > Basically, the "|" (go to screen column) command is ignored when it is > used from the command line with ":normal", and 'virtualedit' is set to > "all", and Visual block mode is entered immediately afterwards. > > Steps to reproduce. > - ":se ve=all" > - on a line with the text "<Tab>hello" issue the command ":norm 3|^V" > > The "3|" (go to virtual column 3) is ignored. Instead, the Visual block > starts on the cursor position. This does not happen in real normal mode. > I would very much appreciate your comments on this behaviour. I'm not > familiar with the Vim source but I can investigate given some pointers.
I can confirm, what's missing from the description is that it only happens if the desired cursor position falls within the display space of the tab character. I started Vim with gvim -N -u NONE -i NONE, set virtualedit=all, and entered text: <-this is a tab this is some text :normal! 6|^Vj will highlight text starting at the current cursor position, with the other corner in column 6 on the next line. It ought to select only column 6 in both lines. :normal! 10|^Vj works as expected, selecting column 10 in both lines Also using the first command in "real" normal mode works as expected. If the tab is replaced by spaces: <-these are spaces this is some more text then both commands behave as expected. Looks like a bug to me. VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Apr 30 2012 14:21:53) MS-Windows 32-bit GUI version with OLE support Included patches: 1-514 Compiled by digitec...@spamdancingpaper.com Huge version with GUI. -- 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