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Piotr Zierhoffer
Piotr Zierhoffer

Reputation: 5151

Vim macro from yanked text enters insert mode

I have the strangest problem with a macro created from yanked text. I have an access to another vim installation on Ubuntu (I use Gentoo) and this problem does not occur. What I need is help to find the reason of such a behaviour.

First a case that works ok:

I start recording a macro with, let's say, qr.

I type exactly the following characters: iasdas<ESC>q

This macro should insert text asdas and exit insert mode. Running it with @r does exactly that.

Second case:

Now I want to manually type my macro, yank it and run.

I enter in insert mode:

iasdas^[

Of course ^[ is inserted with <Ctrl>+v, <ESC>.

I yank it to a register q: "qyy.

Then I verify the content of q and it's exactly correct.

I run it with @q and what I get is most confusing. Text asdas is typed, vim is in insert mode(!) and the cursor is over the last s.

It means that actually what happened is iasdas^[i - otherwise the cursor would be after s. Changing ^[ to jj, which I have mapped to escape, didn't change anything.

I have an extremely complicated macro which I tried to edit by hand. Now I have to escape insert mode after macro, which is bad in so many ways...

As a workaround I've made a macro which contains @q^[, but it breaks behaviour of @@, so it's not a good solution.

This problem gave me a headache. I don't know where to start looking for a reason of this. I have just updated to Vim 7.4, the same behaviour was observed on my 7.3 with the exactly same configuration.

My .vimrc is pretty long with ~10 addons. Trying to remove each one of them is kinda lot of work, so I'd love to have a hint on any other way to trace it.

Edit

With suggestion from I've tried to debug, running vim -V100vimlog filename and I get:

...
Calling shell to execute: "(printf "0x%X" $((0x4A307204 +0x4))) >/tmp/vWo43Tm/2 2>&1" 
Executing CursorMoved Auto commands for "*"
Executing TextChanged Auto commands for "*"
Executing CursorMoved Auto commands for "*"
Executing CursorMoved Auto commands for "*"
Executing CursorMoved Auto commands for "*"
Executing TextChanged Auto commands for "*"
Executing CursorMoved Auto commands for "*"
Executing CursorMoved Auto commands for "*"
Executing InsertEnter Auto commands for "*"-- INSERT --
...

Don't know why this InsertEnter fires though, can I get a more elaborate output?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 599

Answers (2)

Piotr Zierhoffer
Piotr Zierhoffer

Reputation: 5151

Got the culprit.

The problem is with "yy".

Actually, I stated Then I verify the content of q and it's exactly correct. That not true. yy copied ^M at the end of the line.

I've detected it thanks to @IngoKarkat and @Amit answer. Pasting a macro inside a command line showed this: :iasdas^[^M.

I don't know why it caused entering the insert mode. I don't have such a mapping for enter key, does it mean something else?

Most confusing, but fun to find. Thanks @Amit and @IngoKarkat for your answer, it was a good hint!

Of course, yanking without ^M solved the case in a way.

Upvotes: 1

Amit
Amit

Reputation: 20456

You can try this

:let @q='iasds^['

Upvotes: 5

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