[vile] Re: xvile's middle button paste moves cursor to the right

[Eric Krohn]

Tom,

Thanks for your digging.  I would agree that moving the cursor right one
place is appropriate behavior for pastes that do not end with a newline, so
that subsequent pastes "do the right thing".

However, when the paste selection ends in a newline, that cursor
adjustment means that subsequent pastes no longer "do the right thing"!
I'd guess I do newline terminated pastes about 10x as often as non-newline
terminated pastes, which is why I find the current behavior irritating.

It sounds like the cursor adjustment should be conditional on the last
character being newline or not.  

--
Eric Krohn

-----Original Message-----
From:  Thomas Dickey <address@hidden>
Date:  Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:05:48 -0500 (EST)
To:  Eric Krohn <address@hidden>
Cc:  address@hidden
Subject:  Re: [vile] xvile's middle button paste moves cursor to the right
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Eric Krohn wrote:

>
> I like to paste text into xvile when it is command mode, as that preserves
> whitespace from the selection without autoindenting.  However, one of the
> annoying side effects of the middle mouse button paste is that the xvile
> cursor moves one position to the right.  Which means if I want to do a
> series of pastes into the midst of existing text lines, I keep having to
> move the cursor back to the beginning of the line.  Is this one of those
> genuine-vi compatibility settings, or is it a bug in xvile?

I see these in CHANGES.R6, which seem to describe the behavior (so it
was intentional, although one might want to change it):

(kev)   970120 (f)
         + x11.c (x_getc): Advance DOT by one after a paste so that default
           position for newly pasted text is *after* the text just pasted.

(kev)   970120 (e)
         + x11.c: Added resource controlling whether DOT is reset after making
           a selection.  Also added/extended code for implementing this.

(tom)   970119 (d)
         + modify select/paste behavior in xvile so that the default pastes text
           at the last cursor (or mouse-click) position before selecting
           (requested by Jukka Keto <address@hidden>)

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