On Tue, November 20, 2012 00:32, Paul wrote: > I am using exactly the same .vimrc and .vim/ on Slackware and on multiple > Debian Squeeze 6.0.6’s, and only on the Debians do I see this behaviour. > > The “yt” and “vt” commands prompt me for the next character, but when I > enter it, it appears I’m actually entering it in normal mode, not as the > prompt input. > > For example, sample text: > > somemethod(arguments) > > I place the cursor somewhere before the first parenthesis and type “yt(”. > Vim then prompts me with “YR:Enter character:”. I enter “(” again, > thinking it somehow missed the first time I pressed it. Vim then thinks > this is the actual ‘(’ motion command, and takes me to the beginning of > the sentence. The same happens for “dt(”, but not for the commands, such > as “vt(”, including the capitalised backwards commands, which all behave > as expected, and it’s not just with “(”. > > On my Slackware setup, both “yt(” and “dt(” behave as expected. They do > change the statusline to “YR:Enter character:(”, but it’s just > informative, not a prompt. > > As well as putting “set all&” atop my .vimrc, I’ve recompiled one of the > Debian vims a few times, with various features enabled and disabled, to > see if a feature is causing it, but I don’t think so, at least, it’s not > obvious if one is. My latest feature set that differs on Debian is: > > –mouse-gpm > [no +mouse_urxvt +mouse_sgr] > –osfiletype >
Does this also happen with a bare Vim without any plugins loaded? Try vim -u NONE -U NONE -N It sounds like the problem mentioned here: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/msg/4ed40fea6cf5f6b4 regards, Christian -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
