Re: :m without jumping

On 2015-10-07 10:43, Paul wrote:
> On Wednesday, 07 October, 2015 at 10:34:06 BST, Paul wrote:
> >Is it possible to move a line or lines, with :m, and not have the
> >cursor jump to that new location, ie. to have it stay where it is?
>
> Sorry - the same question for :[range]d.

Short answer: no.

Because you're moving the line(s), even if you dropped a mark at the
start/middle/end of your range and moved the range, the mark moves
with the range. So the best you could do would be to drop a mark at
a line before/after your range, do the :move, then jump back to the
mark you dropped.

I've used the existing behavior demonstrated by the ":copy"
command which I used recently in this thread
http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/Execute-command-on-multiple-ranges-found-by-regex-td5725076.html
and occasionally wanted the alternate behavior.

In an ideal world (for me), at a minimum the ":move" and ":copy"/":t"
commands would add an entry in the jump-list so that after the
move/copy moves your cursor, at least a ctrl+o will move you back to
where you were previously. Alas, no such joy.

-tim



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