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Ubuntu 1804 comes with vim 8.0, rather than 7.4 Not sure if it's ubuntu or vim, but it comes with some really annoying changes that haevn't been this jarring s
by isostatic 8y ago
Ubuntu 1804 comes with vim 8.0, rather than 7.4
Not sure if it's ubuntu or vim, but it comes with some really annoying changes that haevn't been this jarring since moving from solaris-vi to the vim bundled with ubuntu (vim-nox) over a decade ago.
The two most annoying things I really noticed and massively reduced my efficency
1) Get about 6 lines from the bottom and the cursor no longer moves.
2) Search moves the window as you're typing
It really pissed me off
- Olreich 8y ago1) That’s scrolloff, `set scrolloff=0` to remove this function altogether (I keep mine set to 2) 2) That’s incsearch, `set noincsearch` to turn it off.
- isostatic 8y agoOh sure, but it means having to have a .vimrc for consistency. My own desktop's vimrc has a few useful shortcuts (F5 for example to "compile" a graphviz file to dot -T x11 -- my VB3 roots showing), but the majority of vim use across the estate has never needed it before. Fortunately I do have a facility to distribute .vimrc to undo these disastrous changes, but changing the default behaviour was rather annoying for an editor that is so ubiquitous.
- _bohm 8y agoI had the same initial reaction to 2) (incsearch) at first after having to work in a shared environment with it enabled. After a little while getting used to it I found it actually sped up my workflow quite a bit! YMMV, but you may find it worth the time to leave it on a little longer and see if it works for you.