Subject: Re: vi changes?
To: Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org>
From: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@jodi.nimenees.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/29/2004 09:29:30
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 05:07:32AM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
> In 1.6 (and previous), if you were editing a file with lines of varying
> length, vi would recall your last explicitly set horizontal position
> when you moved between lines. E.g., if . represents any character and
> whitespace represents no character, and # is the cursor position:
> But, under -current, recently, you would instead get:
>
> ..........
> ..
> ..#....
wow, that'd be really annoying, especially if you expected to be able
to go back up and end up at the same cursor location that you left from.
> Is this change deliberate? I preferred the previous way.
How current of a -current are you using? I just tried this
with sources from the 22nd, and it works ok for me.
eric