Re: netrw - file selection in column mode (liststyle=2)

On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 5:20:15 AM UTC-5, John Little wrote:
> I see it with netrw153.
>
> In autoload/netrw.vim, the NetrwLocalRm function takes a range, firstline to lastline. It loops through the range:
>
> let ctr = a:firstline
> while ctr <= a:lastline
> exe "NetrwKeepj ".ctr
>
> This sets the cursor to the first non-blank character of the line, if the 'startofline' option is on (which is the default) and so the following call to NetrwGetWord finds the word at the beginning of the line.
>
> I imagine Dr Chip uses nostartofline. If I set nosol in my .vimrc, the problem does not occur.
>
> Regards, John Little

John, excellent diagnosis!

Setting nosol resolves the issue -- although I'm worried it may impact behavior elsewhere? As startofline defaults to being on, perhaps it's best to work around this issue with an autocmd?

I've tried the following:

autocmd FileType netrw setlocal nostartofline
autocmd FileType netrw autocmd BufRead,BufEnter <buffer> setlocal nostartofline

While they work and set nosol in the netrw buffer, it seems that the nostartofline option persists outside the netrw buffer itself.


I'm a new vim user && still feeling myself around -- appreciate any help I can get.

~ Brice

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