Re: :p & :P bugs?

On Do, 06 Dez 2018, Tim Chase wrote:

> Brought to my attention by this thread:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/a3e80i/is_vim_right_for_me/
>
> It seems to me that :p should always only print the line, even if
> 'number' is set. If you want to print the line with its line-number,
> you can either use ":p#" (:help ex-flags) or even just ":#". But
> without storing 'nu' and deactivating it before issuing and restoring
> the state of 'nu' after, there's no way to get unnumbered results.

I think this is demanded by Posix, as I have mentioned here:
https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/2862

> Additionally, while reading over those docs, I encountered that
> ":P[rint]" should do the same thing as ":p", but netrwPlugin.vim
> overrides ":P" in a fairly stock environment (in a fresh OpenBSD
> system, installed vim; invoking "vim" had netrwPlugin loaded). That
> said, if invoked as "vim -u NONE", the `:P` works as documented. So
> it seems like either the docs should be updated so that ":help :P"
> goes to netrw docs; or netrw's "Pexplore" shouldn't override the
> built-in ":P"

Hm, we explicitly allow to overrule :Print since 7.3.054, but do not
allow e.g. :Next

> (and here's hoping that your mail-client doesn't turn all those
> colon-P strings into smile-with-tongue-out emoji)

:-P

Best,
Christian
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