Strange Vim behavior in ubuntu, # goes to start of line.

exodist · 11-11-2008, 03:07 PM

The cursor jumps to the start of the line whenever I try to type a comment on an empty line while indented.

new line, go to insert mode, tab over any amount, type '#', and the cursor jumps.

I use the same vimrc fiel in gentoo w/o this problem, so I think it is probably an ubuntu setting.

My vimrc file:

Code:

:set number
:set incsearch
:set hidden
:set tabstop=4
:set shiftwidth=4
:set expandtab
:set list
:set listchars=tab:>.,trail:_
:map <F11> :w<cr>:! provep6 %<CR>
:imap <F11> <ESC>:w<cr>:! provep6 %<CR>
:map <F10> :w<cr>:! perl t/harness --fudge --keep-exit-code %<CR>
:imap <F10> <ESC>:w<cr>:! perl t/harness -v --fudge --keep-exit-code %<CR>
:map <F9> :w<cr>:! prove -v -I. -Ilib -It %<CR>
:imap <F9> <ESC>:w<cr>:! prove -v -I. -Ilib -It %<CR>
:map <F5> :w<cr>:! svn diff %<CR>
:imap <F5> <ESC>:w<cr>:! svn diff %<CR>
:map <F6> :w<cr>:! svn ci %<CR>
:imap <F6> <ESC>:w<cr>:! svn ci %<CR>
:map <F7> :w<cr>:! perldoc %<CR>
:imap <F7> <ESC>:w<cr>:! perldoc %<CR>
:map <delete> xi
:map <space> i 
:map <tab> i<tab>
:map <return> a<CR>
:set autoindent
:set smartindent
:set foldmethod=marker
:set wildmenu
:set wildmode=list:longest
:set scrolloff=5
:set backupdir=~/.vim-tmp,~/.tmp,~/tmp,/var/tmp,/tmp
:set directory=~/.vim-tmp,~/.tmp,~/tmp,/var/tmp,/tmp


syntax on
filetype on
set exrc            " execute all found .vimrc files
" :setlocal spell spelllang=en

if has("autocmd")
  " Drupal *.module files.
  augroup module
    autocmd BufRead *.module set filetype=php
  augroup END
endif

rnturn · 11-26-2008, 08:59 PM

Quote:

The cursor jumps to the start of the line whenever I try to type a comment on an empty line while indented.

new line, go to insert mode, tab over any amount, type '#', and the cursor jumps.

I use the same vimrc fiel in gentoo w/o this problem, so I think it is probably an ubuntu setting.

You never mentioned what sort of file you were working on (shell script, C code, etc.) but there are language-specific syntax files that are probably different between your Ubuntu and Gentoo systems. (Does this signal a resumption of the "indent style" wars of long ago?) These aren't the same as your .vimrc file.

Look at the vim(1) manpage near the bottom in the FILES section for the location of these files. (On my SuSE system they're in /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/.) For what it's worth, us Emacs users have the same trouble; some systems have Emaces that have different ideas how far to indent for, say, Perl scripts. (Drives me crazy sometimes when I move a script from one flavor of UNIX to another.)

I'm not sure if it's possible to move those files from the system that behaves the way you prefer onto the system that has the odd pound-sign behavior. Worth a try but I'd tar up the exiting "syntax" subdirectory in case the files are, for some reason, incompatible. (Then just untar to restore the "syntax" subdirectory.)

Hope this helps...

--
Rick