[7799] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Cursor placement on exit bug with new vim 5.8, and comment about exmh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Wed Jul 18 19:43:45 2001
Message-Id: <200107182342.TAA23760@byte-me.mit.edu>
To: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
cc: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, mitchb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:32:16 EDT."
<20010718193216.A2195@stratton-four-eighty-three.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:42:54 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
> > 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.
Sorry... perhaps I wasn't as clear as I should have been. The entire status
line doesn't disappear. When you first turn the ruler on, vim will
display the name of the file and total number of lines on the left side
of the status line, and the current line and column numbers on the right side
of the status line. Once you either do something that causes another message
to be displayed on the status line, or you scroll down below the current
pageful of lines, the filename and total number of lines will no longer be
displayed on the left of the status line. This is the condition that must be
met for the bug to appear.
Mitch
