Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.0.20050111225749.05328420@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:58:35 -0500 To: "anamtharon" , From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: vim problem (win xp): Cygwin seems unable to move the input cursor to arbitrary positions. In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:24 PM 1/11/2005, you wrote: >Good morning. > >Since i've updated cygwin i only had time to try out vim again, and there seems to be a problem with >the automatic movement of the input cursor. > >E.g. after simple character input, the cursor isn't moved to the next positon (but vim keeps >overwriting the last character i typed). And when typing a command (with the initial ':'), although >the ':' is getting printed to the proper bottom line, everything i type after that is getting put >into the document view (or wossname), only that this time the cursor position is getting incremented, >so that i actually can write a whole line of command-line text which also even is properly >interpreted as a command. > >But what's really strange, is this. When i now split the screen with ':sp', the upper document view >behaves like the original, but the lower suddenly is working just fine. I can write whole lines of >text, manually move the cursor about, i.e. do all the fancy things i used to do (in the good old >days). > >I look forward to any comments. OK, let's start here: >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/