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

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