Re: Command z doesn't work

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 4:22 PM lylez <lyle.ziegelmiller@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 9:51:05 AM UTC-8, andalou wrote:
> I'm using vim 80.069 on Windows with defaults.vim enabled.
>
> When pressing z<CR>, the cursor line is supposed to get to top of
> window, but is placed 5 lines below the top.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> --
> Cesar

Folks, this is a classic example of a bug masquerading as a feature. Not only does the z-<CR> functionality not work, but I can't even move the cursor above the fifth line being displayed by pressing the k key, unless the file is scrolled all the way to the top.

This is like if a car company sold a car that, every few hundred miles, suddenly lurched hard left, causing it to collide at high speed with oncoming traffic. When alerted to this, the car company responds by saying, "Oh yeah, that's the default behavior, but not to worry, all you have to do is press the stereo volume button, AC button, and radio station tuner buttons, all at the same time, and then turn the station to 99.0 FM, and the problem will be gone".

It wasn't like this in Vim 7.4, but it is in Vim 8. Please fix.

Lyle,

Did you miss the posts earlier about the 'scrolloff' option? :help scrolloff explains this option. Do you have a custom .vimrc file? :help defaults.vim (mentioned at :help scrolloff) says that if you do not have a user .vimrc, defaults.vim will be sourced and it will set the scrolloff option to 5 which explains what you are seeing. This is not a bug.

Cheers,

Ethan Alan

 

Regards

Lyle

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