Re: A small feature request for Vim 7.4

On Monday, July 15, 2013 7:19:09 PM UTC+3, Nicolas Dermine wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Aggelos Kolaitis <neoag...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm using Vim version 7.3.
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> When in visual block mode, once I have chosen a one-line column, the last char has not been highlighted. For example consider the following text:
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> I move the cursor the first 'f', enter visual block mode with 'Ctrl-V' and do a '2j' to move to 't' of third.
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> This, however, will only highlight 'f' and 's' (the first characters from the first and second lines). This wasn't a problem when my terminal used a block for its cursor ( [] ), which was something that highlighted the final line.
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> Recently I switched to and underline character ( _ ) for cursor, and now that makes me a little dizzy trying to figure out the portion selected. Could it be the 7.4 version ( or a quick patch for 7.3 ) that would also highlight the last character?? I hope the example was useful to understand the 'issue'.
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> Hi,
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> for what it's worth when I try and reproduce your steps on the same text (Ctrl+V 2j starting on 'f'), the letters 'f', 's' and 't' are highlighted.
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> I tried with colorscheme koehler and default, Vim 7.3 on windows 7.
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Yeah, but what is your cursor's shape ??? If it is a ''block character''( [] ), then everything is highlighted, (the cursor highlights the `t` in our exaple. But with the underline character (_) as cursor, this does not happen.

The main issue is that vim, when highlighting a visual selection, it highlights everything but the current cursor position. That is okay with some cursors, since they take care of highlighting the current position, but not for all (e.g. my example with the underline `_' character).

So, is it possible to allow vim to highlight the current position too ? And if it breaks some things ( e.g. cursor cannot be found because the blink is not shown, at least have an option somewhere to switching this behaviour on/off.

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