Make counted p more usable #150
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Contributed by Walter Alejandro Iglesias [email protected]
An implementation detail of
p
with a count made it not as usable asP
. Users have to switch toP
with a count to get sensible content. The patch solves the issue by factoring the cursor placement out ofp
/P
with a count. After the change,p
also collects content without interleaving.To illustrate how bizarre the current behavior is, consider this example:
After the first operation, you will get
After the second operation, you will get
This means if you use
3p
instead of2p
to repeat the example, the content to paste with the two operations (with or without starting on an empty line) will diverge. You end up withThis also affects line-based
p
with a count.The proposed change produces
Closes: #146