Brennan Vincent wrote:
> When joining a line that is followed by an empty line (or one with only > spaces), POSIX specifies that it should be deleted without the current > line being affected. See the section "Join" in > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ . > > However, vim appends a space to the current line in this case. For > example, if line 1 is "foo", and line 2 is blank, after executing :1j > line 1 will be "foo ", as can be seen by executing the following (`ex` > is provided by `vi` on my system) > > $ echo -e 'foo\n' > test.txt && echo -e '1j\nwq' | ex test.txt && wc -c > test.txt > 5 test.txt > > nvi/nex give the POSIX behavior: > > $ echo -e 'foo\n' > test.txt && echo -e '1j\nwq' | nex test.txt && wc -c > test.txt > 4 test.txt > > Is this a bug, or intentional? I can't think of a reason why it works this way. And the trailing space is useless. So we should call it a bug. What should happen if the second line is blank, not empty? -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 77. The phone company asks you to test drive their new PBX system /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/201911121912.xACJC0wr001498%40masaka.moolenaar.net.
