Greg Wooledge wrote: > In my testing, I ran vim with no arguments, and typed in a single line > of gibberish. Then, I moved the cursor to column 0. Finally, I typed > out the command 20l in a different terminal, highlighted it, and pasted > it into vim. Rather than moving my cursor 20 characters to the right, > it inserted the literal string "20l". Specifically, it acts as if I > had pressed "i20lESC". I began and ended in command mode, but command > text was inserted as if I had been in insert mode.
This is reminiscent of the bracketed paste mode. Were you (is everyone here?) using a terminal with that turned on? -dsr-
