Re: gv bug?

Tim Chase wrote:

> To replicate
>
> $ vi -u NONE
> :r !jot 15
>
> (or use `seq 15` to get the numbers 1-15 in your file)
>
> 3GVG:g/5/d
>
> This should delete lines 5 and 15 because they contain a "5".
> However, issueing
>
> gv
>
> does not reselect the text.

For me it does. I cannot guess why it doesn't work for you.

> If instead you have 16 numbers
>
> $ vim -u NONE
> :r !jot 16
>
> and do
>
> 3GVGk:g/5/d
>
> (selecting through the penultimate line, so the same text selected
> as before, followed by the same command, just with a line below '>
> containing "16") followed by
>
> gv
>
> it works, adjusting the '> mark to the line containing "16". So
> there's clearly some "the last line of my visual range was deleted,
> so we need to adjust it" logic, but it doesn't seem to check if that
> adjusment runs of the end of the file and back it off instead.
>
> Thanks!

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