Re: Bug in i_CTRL-\_CTRL-O [was "Please explain Regex"]

Tim Chase wrote:

> On 01/09/13 07:06, Kazuo Teramoto wrote:
> > On 09 Jan 2013 at 10:59:36 -0200, Tim Chase wrote:
> >> As an aside, I don't know if it's a bug, but i_CTRL-\_CTRL-o is
> >> supposed to act like i_CTRL-o without moving the cursor, but in at
> >> least my stock Debian 7.2.445, doing
> >>
> >> {ctrl-\}{ctrl-o}yis
> >>
> >> in the middle of a sentence moves the cursor to the beginning of the
> >> sentence. Can somebody running a more recent version test this for
> >> me?
> >
> > The same for me, i.e., {ctrl-\}{ctrl-o}yis move the cursor to the same
> > place yis moves the cursor.
> >
> > I have vim 7.3.754 from Arch Linux.
>
> Bram, et al.,
>
> According to ":help i_CTRL-\_CTRL-O", it should not move the cursor.
> However, as demonstrated above using
>
> ^\^Oyis
>
> the cursor does end up moving, even in fairly recent builds as
> confirmed by Kazuo.

It's not the CTRL-\ CTRL-O that moves the cursor, it is the command that
follows that moves the cursor.
It would not be useful to disallow moving the cursor, e.g., CTRL-\ CTRL-O W
would not do anything.

The main difference with CTRL-O is when the cursor is past the end of
the line.


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