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vim does it...vim does it...Posted Oct 31, 2006 15:36 UTC (Tue) by mikov (subscriber, #33179)In reply to: vim does it... by niner Parent article: GNU emacs 22 goes into pretest
Thanks! That is close to want I want. It doesn't quite work in my version
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vim does it... Posted Oct 31, 2006 18:30 UTC (Tue) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link] Have the same behavior in 6.4.6It only is after typing something. If I move the cursor one to the left after typing and pressing down it moves down. If not, it goes to the end of the line below. But if I press up and down again it's just one position down. Weird.
This could be because vim remembers the position in the line one moved to. In non-virtual mode if you press down and the next line is shorter, the cursor moves to that line's end. If the next after that is longer again, it moves to the position it were. This nice feature is the reason why I usually don't need virtual mode. But it could be handy for drawing ASCII art ;)
vim does it... Posted Oct 31, 2006 18:52 UTC (Tue) by mikov (subscriber, #33179) [Link] >This could be because vim remembers the position in the line one movedto. In non-virtual mode if you press down and the next line is shorter, the cursor moves to that line's end. If the next after that is longer again, it moves to the position it were. This nice feature is the reason why I usually don't need virtual mode. But don't you find it just a little bit confusing, theoretically speaking ? It remembers the position in the "longer" line and tries to keep as close to it as it can. But for how long - what if you move the cursor horizontally, or type something? Then it doesn't remember it anymore. But what if you undo the operation ? You see, the desired behavior is not obvious and I have noticed that editors have subtle differences and are not entirely consistent in implementing it. We can start adding improvements like remembering the position in the last 100 or 1000 lines, and a timeout after which we flush the remembered position, etc. Ultimately, the logical conclusion leads to "virtual space". This is just pet peeve of mine, of course. I am speaking only theoretically. I don't want to offend anyone or to claim that virtual space is actually more convenient for editing source. Only that it seems more logical theoretically.
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