Re: Cursor question

On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 4:34:22 AM UTC-5, rameo wrote:
> In insert mode I have a blinking vertical bar as cursor.
>
> I noted a strange thing when I'm in insert mode:
> I have to click with the mouse on the next letter in order to put the vertical bar before this letter.
> When I click on the space between two letters the cursor goes to the space before the previous letter:
>
> In notepad and in other applications on my windows system (p.e. writing this message in my browser), the vertical bar goes where I click with the mouse.
>
> I would like to have this also in vim.
> What can I do to obtain this?
>
> This is what I have in _vimrc:
> set guicursor=i-c-ci:ver20-Cursor,r-cr:hor10-RCursor

I don't think you can obtain this. In Vim the cursor position is always *on* a character. In normal mode this makes much more sense than in insert mode. If you use a box instead of a bar in insert mode I think the box will be where you click.

Truth be told, I've never noticed this, because I might use the mouse in insert mode once every two or three months. Mostly I move around in normal mode.

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