Andre Sihera wrote:

> Admittedly I am using a slightly old version of Vim (7.3.712). However, I
> wanted to check the behaviour of the dot command.
> 
> I open the R command, type text, moving onto the next line, type more text,
> then close the R command. I know that if you change line in the middle of
> any kind of insert, typically only the last line is available via the "."
> command.
> 
> However, in this case the replace command is repeated as an insert.
> 
> e.g.
> 
> Before:
> 
> abcdefgh
> ijklmnop
> 
> After Replace command (cursor position indicated by ^):
> 
> xxxxefgh
> xxxxmnop
>      ^
> 
> After ".":
> 
> xxxxefgh
> xxxxxxxxmnop
> 
> Expected:
> 
> xxxxefgh
> xxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> Can anybody confirm if this behaviour by design (e.g. for POSIX 
> compatibility)
> or if it's a bug?

It's not clear to me what exactly you typed.  Please mention exactly the
keys that you typed.

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