Bug#369594: vim: Doesn't show -- INSERT -- when appending line

James Vega jamessan at debian.org
Wed May 31 14:24:33 UTC 2006


On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:50:50AM -0400, Luke Moore wrote:
> James Vega wrote:
> >Could you give the exact steps to
> >reproduce this behavior, starting from "vim -u NONE"?
> 
> Sure.
> 1. :set showmode
> 2. Press i
> 3. Type the text "one\ntwo\three" (to create 3 lines of text), press escape.
> 4. Press shift-v, k, k, y to yank those three lines.
> 5. Press shift-p many (say, 20) times to paste those lines many times. 
> The cursor will stay at the top of the document.
> 6. Press shift-g to jump to the end.
> 7. Press o.  For some reason, it doesn't say '-- INSERT --'.

This works as expected for me.  After step 7, it does say
'-- INSERT --'.

James
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