On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A recent patch (since 1507; I assume it was 1604) broke my preferred > "showbreak" setting for text files. > > I have been setting showbreak to ↖ (U+2196 NORTH WEST ARROW). The glyph > for this character still only occupies a single cell on my gvim, however it > is treated as a wide character so it uses two screen cells (the second one > is empty) and is not allowed in the 'showbreak' option. > > As far as I can tell most of the other arrow characters are still a single > cell only, but the (NORTH|SOUTH) (EAST|WEST) ARROW characters are treated > as double width. (RIGHT|LEFT)WARDS ARROW only take a single cell, so > growing to take two cells when you rotate 45 degrees seems strange. > > Also double-width now are (LEFT|RIGHT)WARDS ARROW WITH HOOK, even though > the very similar DOWNWARDS ARROW WITH (TIP|CORNER) (LEFT|RIGHT)WARDS > characters are still single width. > > Any of these can obviously fit in a single cell in gvim at least. Do they > cause problems elsewhere? > I've noticed similar problems ever since the "emoji" option was introduced. The crux seems to be that Vim is treating lots of non-emoji multibyte chars (such as those mentioned) as if they were emoji. It messes up the "w" normal mode command, and causes the cursor to be visually displayed atop a character that isn't what's reflected by "ga". At least some of these worries can be fixed by setting "noemoji", but I find it inexplicable that "emoji" is ON by default, given how it messes up operating with non-emoji characters. Either Vim needs to only apply "emoji" to emoji, or it needs to not make "emoji" on by default. -Manny -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
