>
> Regarding the last line of the buffer, this is indeed a "feature" of evil.
> Vegard and I had a long discussion about this and finally agreed on the
> current implementation which is as follows. Evil considers
> newline-characters as line terminators, not as line separators, which is
> the default UNIX (POSIX?) interpretation. This means it is not allowed to
> move point on a newline or to the position after the last newline character
> in the buffer. Evil does some fancy stuff to ensure that point is always
> adjusted to the "allowed" region.
> The reason for this was that the last, possibly "incomplete" line (when
> the last character in the file is not a newline) causes some trouble with
> vim-line line operations (e.g. the last line of some line-wise operation
> would not include a final newline, but only in this case).


Hi Frank,
Could you link me to the discussion you and Vegard had about disallowing
point at EOB?

I searched "point EOB" in the archives, but without many results.
_______________________________________________
implementations-list mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/implementations-list

Reply via email to