Re: cursorline and long lines

Christian Brabandt wrote:

> On Fri, March 30, 2012 00:41, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > On 2012-03-29, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> >> Bram,
> >>
> >> On Mi, 28 Mär 2012, Abu Yoav wrote:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >> > I am editing a text file (latex). I prefer that each paragraph be a
> >> > long line, and that vim wrap the text. That's the usual behaviour, and
> >> > that works fine. An option that seems very helpful is cursorline, so I
> >> > set it (":set cul"). However, this does not do what I want. Namely,
> >> > instead of highlighting the *visual* line I am on, it highlights the
> >> > whole paragraph. Is there any way to highlight only the current visual
> >> > line I am on? Again, a workaround would be to instruct vim to have
> >> > lines of at most 80 characters (say), but I don't want that.
> >>
> >> The help for 'cursorline' says:
> >>
> >> ,----
> >> | Highlight the screen line of the cursor with CursorLine
> >> `----
> >>
> >> While 'cul' has always been highlighting complete lines. Do you think,
> >> this would warrant a new option, that changes 'cul' to only highlight
> >> screen lines or change the option 'cul' to a string option, that can be
> >> set to 'screen' or 'line'?
> >>
> >> This might be helpful for long lines (e.g. when editing csv files and
> >> wrap is set).
> >>
> >> If not, the documentation should be updated.
> >
> > Or declare it a bug and fix the behavior to match the documentation.
>
> Well, here is a patch, that fixes it. I am not sure, whether this
> is a bug and this patch certainly makes 'cul' behave unexpectedly.
>
> Would be good, if some people try it out,
> because the screen drawing code looks frightening to me ;)

I don't think we should change the current meaning of 'cursorline'.
What the original poster asked for is something else.

Since 'cursorline' is a boolean option we can't change it to be more
than an on/off switch.

That leaves adding Yet Another Option...

- Bram

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