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Re: Cursor placement on exit bug with new vim 5.8, and comment about exmh

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Wed Jul 18 19:32:22 2001

Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:32:16 -0400
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>
Cc: bug-sipb@mit.edu
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> If the ruler is on (:set ruler) at the time you exit, and if since the
> last time it was turned on, you have scrolled down far enough that the
> initial text on the left side of the status line (usually filename and
> number of lines) disappears, when you exit your prompt will be displayed
> starting where the current line number is printed on the ruler.  This bug
> didn't exist in the previously installed version.

If you have a status line, it is always there in visual mode.  How do
you get it to disappear?  The ruler isn't around in ex mode, so that
can't explain it.

yak

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