Monday, February 8, 2016

Re: Feature or bug? dw oddities

Christian Brabandt wrote:

> Hi Bram!
>
> On Sa, 06 Feb 2016, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> > There are a few more places in the docs that need to point to this flag.
> >
> > Is there a better character than "_" to use for this?
>
> Updated patch uses 'z'
>
> Also added some more references to it in the documentation.

Thanks for the update.

> > Also, plugin writers must be aware of the two different behaviors.
>
> I am not sure, what is meant with this statement. The current behaviour
> does not change, only when removing the 'z' flag from 'cpo' it will
> behave more consistent (as other vi clones behave).

So most plugin writers will test with the current behavior, and then
when some user uses your change he may run into a plugin not handling
that exception. It would be a bit rare for plugins to notice the
difference though.


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