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:


.....#....
..
.......

Then, moving down two lines would give you:

..........
..
.....#.


But, under -current, recently, you would instead get:

..........
..
..#....



Is this change deliberate?  I preferred the previous way.


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