Re: [vile] Another compat question

[Marc Simpson]

I would certainly find a flag useful, especially for sharing macros
between vile and nvi.

Thanks again,
Marc

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 03:09:35PM -0800, Marc Simpson wrote:
>> I've noticed that a successful line substitution moves the cursor,
>> leaving it at the final replacement location. Here's a quick
>> comparison:
>>
>> Initial buffer (cursor marked with the caret):
>>
>>   foo bar baz
>>   ^
>>
>> after :s/b/c/g in vile:
>>
>>   foo car caz
>>           ^
>>
>> after the same operation in nvi, ex-050325, vim:
>>
>>   foo car caz
>>   ^
>>
>> Is this behaviour configurable?
>
> no - though it would be fairly easy to implement.  A few commands are
> marked in cmdtbl as NOMOVE, and the command-executor checks that to
> restore the cursor position after completing a command.
>
> I seem to recall that the behavior was discussed quite a while ago
> (Paul Fox may recall).  We've added a few modes (such as alt-tabpos)
> to smooth out differences between vile and vi...
>
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