Bug#217062: vim: visual mode command gv does not work as specified in documentation

José G. Juanino José G. Juanino , 217062@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:34:12 +0100


El mar, mar 15 2005, 09:57:48 +0100, Pierre Habouzit escribió:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 03:49:49PM +0200, José G. Juanino wrote:
> > Package: vim
> > Version: 6.1.018-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
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> > 
> > vim documentation says that 
> > 
> > gv                      [ ............ ]
> >                         In Visual mode the current and the previo=
us
> >                         Visual area are exchanged.
> > 
> > 
> > If you select text in visual mode, hit <Esc>, and then select ano=
ther
> > text in visual mode, hitting again gv does not exchange to the pr=
evios
> > Visual area, as it should.
> > 
> > Juanino
> 
> 
>   this seems to be fixed in current vim in sarge.  do you confirm ?

This "bug" happens only if you have klipper (KDE) open,
because of the interaction of this program when you are selecting text inside
of vim. Thus, you can close this bug, as it is not a vim problem.

Juanino