Re: [vile] Odd cursor problem after hitting end of file

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:45:56PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> I have recently noticed an odd problem which occurs after hitting
> end-of-file with the cursor.
> 
> If you 'j' (next-line) to the end of a file, leaving the cursor at the
> start of the line then, when you move the cursor back up again it's at
> the end of every line.  This is very annoying when you just 'bounce'
> off the end of a file and then go back up again as, with long lines,
> the display flickers all over the place.
> 
> I'm running "xvile version 9.5 for solaris2.6", I don't think this
> happened with the last few previous versions.

I'm not seeing _that_ (literally just 'j' and 'k').

But if you do a '$' to go to the end of the line before starting the j/k,
it will do this.  (I agree that it's odd that vile will track to the
end of all lines after that, but iirc, it's done that "forever", since
vi does this).

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