Re: switching buffers problems on OpenSuse 11.2

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote:

> When I am using vim on OpenSuse 11.2 and switch from one buffer to
> another I have already been in using the :rew or :n it has the very
> disturbing behavior of positioning the cursor at the bottom of the
> screen. At first I thought it was just a behavior that exists in an
> xterm but then I found it also exists in gvim as well. I finally
> mapped the following function keys to get rid of this strange behavior
> (this my entire ~/.vimrc file):
>
> set hlsearch
> set nobackup
> set nocompatible
> set noerrorbells
> set nowrapscan
> set showmatch
> set showmode
> map <F5> :n<CR>zz
> map <F6> :rew<CR>zz
> map <F7> :wn<CR>zz
> map <F8> :w!<CR>zz
> map <F12> :x!<CR>
> " set so=999
> behave xterm
>

I don't see that behavior on OpenSUSE 11.2 using the above .vimrc (saved
as ~/vim-opensuse112-problem) with the following lines prepended:

" avoid the stuff in my ~/.vim/ directory
set rtp=/usr/share/vim/site,$VIMRUNTIME,/usr/share/vim/site/after

And starting vim as:

vim -u ~/vim-opensuse112-problem -U /etc/vimrc file1 file2

So, perhaps it's something else in your ~/.vim/ directory? (Plugins,
etc.?) Or maybe something's installed in /usr/share/vim/site?

Do you get the behavior if you use:

vim -u NONE -U NONE -N file1 file2

(The -N disables plugins.)

That's with vim-7.2-16.7 from the standard OpenSUSE 11.2 oss repository.
First few lines of :version:
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Oct 24 2009 08:04:13)
Included patches: 1-127, 257
Compiled by 'http://www.opensuse.org/'
Huge version without GUI.

> All they have are the following files in /etc:
>
> /etc/vimrc
> /etc/skel/.vimrc
>
> I cannot find what is doing it in the /etc/vimrc file. What do I need
> to do to turn this behavior of bottoming of the cursor off (other than
> using the preceding Fn keys)?. If nothing else this argues for Bram
> coming up with a standard that all Linux and Unix vendors should use
> for the /etc files to give a minimal standard for everybody to proceed
> from. Some turn on hlsearch (I prefer it) and some don't. I can
> clearly see that is something that is optional that should probably be
> off by default. That isn't the problem - I want all of these
> differences to disappear and not have something like this happen
> again.

Generally distributions are decent about not doing things that would be
surprising. The more I learn about Vim, though, and care about the
defaults, the more landmines I find. (Gentoo = home, OpenSUSE = work,
Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora = hobby). I've almost reached the point where I
want to do:
alias vi='vim -U NONE'
(instead of just alias vi=vim)

But, that's only because I've started caring. In general, I think the
distro defaults are good for starting out. (Setting syntax and minor
options.)

> Or is it a bug that has been fixed? It doesn't happen on Ubuntu
> 10.04. Please send me a personal answer if at all possible since I
> only receive the Abridged summary.

Overall, I've noticed the most differences (but admittedly haven't
always been looking for them) when using Ubuntu.

--
Best,
Ben

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