Re: inconsistent cursor position after paste ('p')

On 10 Dec 2013, at 20:06, Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:

> On Di, 10 Dez 2013, Alexey wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> can this be considered a bug, or is there a reason for it?
>>
>> If i paste with 'p' a piece of text that does not have line breaks in
>> it, the cursor is left on the last character of the pasted text.
>>
>> If i paste with 'p' a piece of text that has line breaks in it, the
>> cursor is left on the first character of the pasted text.
>>
>> Why?
>
> TL;DR: this is demanded by the standard.
>
> In more detail: Vim doesn't seem to fully adhere to the somewhat
> confusing standard. But I am not sure, it is worth fixing it. For
> positioning the cursor always at the end of the pasted text, you can use
> the gp and gP commands. For more information (with links to the relevant
> standard), you might want to read the thread at the vim_dev list
> starting at:
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/E-vZy50zjV4/iyffVMMTqakJ

Thanks for the link.

Alexey.

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