Monday, May 4, 2015

Re: Behavior of and

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Nikolay Pavlov <zyx.vim@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-05-05 6:32 GMT+03:00 Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>:
>> With "vim -u NONE -N", given the following text:
>>
>> ABC
>> DEF
>>
>> - With cursor on D, <backspace> moves to C.
>> - With cursor on D, `h` does nothing.
>> - With cursor on C, <space> moves to D.
>> - With cursor on C, `l` does nothing.
>>
>> Where is this documented? Is this behavior affected by any options?
>
> This behaviour is affected by &whichwrap option.
>
>> Note that "vim -u NONE -C" (Vi-compatible) does not behave in this
>> way.
>>
>> ":help <space>" implies that <space> is equivalent to `l`, which is
>> clearly wrong. Likewise for ":help <backspace>".
>
> It is not that wrong. Just space and l, as well as backspace and h can
> be configured separately by &whichwrap option and Vim defaults make
> them behave differently.

Thanks! A mention of |whichwrap| at :help <space> would be intuitive.

Justin M. Keyes

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