Thursday, November 17, 2011

Re: Not sign instead of space when repeating insert

On Nov 17, 3:56 am, Sergio Losilla <loxim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is my first posting to the mailing list. Of course it was motivated
> by some obnoxious problem that I cannot fix, but it looks like a good
> place to learn more about the most awesome editor on Earth :P
>
> A while ago, I noticed that when I use "." to repeat an insert, the
> spaces get replaced by not signs ( , &#172;, &not;). For instance, the
> following sequence of keystrokes: "aa b c<ESC>." produces the following
> text: "a b ca b c".
>
> I checked that the characters are actually those (they are saved to
> file), not just a visual representation of spaces.
>
> I looked at the ". register, and the weird characters were already
> there. I have no idea how these are stored and were the corruption happens.
>
> Any suggestions?
>

Now, that is strange! I certainly don't see that behavior.

What version of Vim are you running? Any plugins you know may affect
the '.' command? Does it happen also when running Vim without your
plugins or mapping, e.g. "gvim -N -u NONE -i NONE"? All buffers, or
only buffers with a certain filetype?

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