Re: [vile] Another compat question

[j. van den hoff]

On Fri, 04 Mar 2016 01:28:21 +0100, 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

just my 2c:
maybe that would really be nice to have: while I can see that the current  
behaviour is desirable in some situations the original behaviour (keep  
position) has also is merits, especially when doing document wide  
substitutions/tidy ups via macros.

> 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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