Bug#572994: vim-tiny: vim.tiny does not show candidate in replace with confirmation

Robert Henney robh at rut.org
Wed Mar 17 05:37:46 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:18:40AM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:03:43PM -0500, Robert Henney wrote:
> > vim.tiny does not show what the current candidate string for 
> > replacing is when performing a prompted search, eg
> > 
> >  :1,$s/text/replace/gc
> 
> Are you referring to the visual highlighting of the text to be replaced
> that happens in the non-tiny builds?
> 
> If so, that's definitely not a bug.  +syntax (from ":help +feature") is
> only available when built with the Normal (or larger) feature set.
> vim-tiny is built with the Small feature set.

ok.  though any vi clone I've seen at the minimum places the cursor
where the text to be replaced is.  it's not so much highlighting but
rather the confirmation feature that is practically useless without some
way to show what is being replaced.  maybe it should be a wishlist
item, but without this vim doesn't even work like vi.  it seems like
an oversight.





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