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akrasuski1
akrasuski1

Reputation: 840

Cursor not returning to horizontal position in vim

When I'm in normal mode, the cursor works as I expected - consider the following situation:

Initial

If I press down 4 times, the cursor will move to this position:

Expected

However, when I do the same thing in insert mode, the cursor goes there:

Unexpected

The question is: is this behavior correct? If yes, what is the reason behind it and how can I change it (if possible)?

My short .vimrc:

set tabstop=4
set softtabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set smartindent
set mouse=a
set number
set ai
set nowrap
set viminfo='100,<5000,s1000

Upvotes: 4

Views: 326

Answers (1)

akrasuski1
akrasuski1

Reputation: 840

This issue kept irritating me for a while now, and today I found this answered question on the same topic:

https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/3021/vim-forgets-cursor-column-when-i-move-over-a-line-that-ends-with-a-brace-in-inse

The answer is not exactly precise (following it precisely yielded errors in vim during runtime), however I managed to modify it to work correctly. Below is change I've done:

In file responsible for highlighting matching parentheses, /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/matchparen.vim, at lines 90-100, there is the following piece of code:

let has_getcurpos = exists("*getcurpos")
if has_getcurpos
  " getcurpos() is more efficient but doesn't exist before 7.4.313.
  let save_cursor = getcurpos()
else
  let save_cursor = winsaveview()
endif

The problem lies in getcurpos() function - for some reason it doesn't seem to work correctly. Thus, I added override in after the first line of that code:

let has_getcurpos = 0

This works around the problem.

Upvotes: 2

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