Re: strange behaviour of normal command

Am 20.02.2010 07:30, schrieb KKde:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm seeing a strange behaviour of normal comand.
>
> Let's say I have the below function.
>
> function! NormalNTest()
> let saveCursor = getpos('.')
> "call setpos([0, 1, 1, 0 ] )
> normal gg
> call setpos('.', saveCursor)
> echohl Special | echon "hi" |echohl None
> echon ' vim_use'
> endfunc
>
> now I defined a map like
>
> map ,vi :call NormalNTest()<CR>
>
> Let say I opened some text file and run map ,vi. It displays "hi
> vim_use". Now I move the cursor in my text file using any motion
> commands. Let's say, I moved forward to the next page then I ran
> map ,vi. It doesn't display the output :( . Again if I ran map ,vi at
> the same location it will show.
>
> When the output isn't displayed the screen slightly flickers. If I
> replace the normal gg statement with call setpos([0, 1, 1, 0 ] ) then
> it works fine without any problems.
>
> Why with normal gg it isn't working as expected?
>
> Regards,
> Kkde

When you move around in the buffer, the command-line area may be cleared.
Try prepending the first :echo command with a
:redraw

--
Andy

Don't worry, unlike :redraw!, :redraw doesn't flicker.

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