On 23 September 2010 11:25, björn <bjorn.winck...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 September 2010 09:53, raw-bin <robin.randh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Edward, Israel. >> >> >> Israel, I accidentally replied only to you - apologies. Resending to >> the group >> this time! >> >> On Sep 23, 6:14 am, "Israel Chauca F." <israelvar...@fastmail.fm> >> wrote: >>> On Sep 22, 2010, at 11:45 PM, Edward wrote: >>> >>> > I use MacVim for a variety of text files and I have "format options" >>> > activated. This rearranges paragraphs on the fly during editing. >>> > Unfortunately since 7.3 a bug or a new behavior has been added. When I >>> > go into insert mode on any but the first line of a paragraph, MacVim >>> > inserts only one character where I want, and then it indexes 8 >>> > characters ahead in the line for each additional insertion. >>> >>> > For example, adding the word "Now" to the beginning of this text: >>> >>> > is the time for all good men to come to the aid of... >>> >>> > Produces the following result: >>> >>> > *N*is the t*o*ime for *w*all good men to come to the aid of... >>> >>> > Note, the asterisks are there to make it clear how the word "Now" got >>> > folded into the text. >>> >>> > Any help would be appreciated. I've only been using Vim as my main >>> > editor for about a year, so I hope this isn't some simple option or >>> > setting I missed. But at this point I'm pretty sure something is wonky >>> > with 7.3. Until this update I have never had this issue. >>> >>> Have you tried running mvim -N -u NONE -U NONE ? >> >> I have the exact same problem which makes sensible plain text editing >> virtually >> impossible. I didn't have this problem before 7.3 either. >> >> I tried Israel's suggestion as follows: >> >> $ /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/MacVim -N -u NONE -U NONE >> >> .. but to no avail. >> >> Like Edward I use a set of format options and these are as follows: >> >> augroup filetype >> autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.txt set filetype=human >> augroup END >> >> autocmd FileType human set formatoptions+=qwarntc textwidth=72 >> linebreak smartindent autoindent > > I cannot reproduce this problem so I'm guessing that it is some option > that is causing problems. Please go through the first step at > > http://code.google.com/p/macvim/wiki/ReportingBugs > > and try to figure out a minimal configuration that causes the problem, > then give me step-by-step instructions on how to reproduce.
It turns out that this bug is known and a patch has been proposed, see http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/db5b682736a8f4e Björn -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" 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