Re: Surprised that "gi" doesn't modify the jumplist

Christian Brabandt wrote:

> Hi Tim!
>
> On Mo, 23 Sep 2013, Tim Chase wrote:
>
> > Playing around with the latest VimGolf challenge[1], I was attempting
> > to use "gi" to add some text, then control+O (or backtick-backtick) to
> > jump back to where I had issued the "gi". I was somewhat surprised to
> > find that "gi" doesn't modify the jump-list, even though it can
> > generate some pretty large jumps, losing the previous location in the
> > process.
>
> Not sure, but it sounds like a good idea, to add the current position to
> the jumplist. So here is a patch, to add this function.

I hesitate to include this, because I expect some plugins to use this.
e.g. to drop out of insert mode, do some stuff (grab a word from
somewhere else in the file) and then "gi" to resume inserting. In that
case adding a jump is not what one expects.

We could add the jump when "gi" was typed instead of coming from a
script or mapping, but that makes it a bit unpredictable.


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