I'm running Neovim 0.5.0 locally. I'm going through Harvard's CS50 course and they have an IDE (accessible here: https://ide.cs50.io/) with a shell that's running this version of Vim:
version 8.1.2269
by Bram Moolenaar et al.
Modified by [email protected]
Vim is open source and freely distributable
I can also access a version of vim 7.4 through a computing cluster of a different university. Have tested what I'm about to demonstrate using empty vimrcs.
In the version of Vim in the CS50 shell's IDE if I start with my cursor on the space between LINE
and ONE
on the first line here:
LINE ONE
line two
and in normal mode type dj
the resulting text is
LINE two
having deleted the words ONE
and line
.
When I do the same thing in the other versions I mentioned it deletes both lines of text completely as if I had typed 2dd
. Have tested it for dk
as well.
Also, if I remember correctly (though I'm not going to check now) the behavior from the CS50 IDE is also what occurs in the educational game Vim Adventures.
So my question is why is there this inconsistent behavior? Was it just that particular version of Vim in the CS50 IDE shell? Was it the modifications that the Debian team did to the CS50 version of VIM? Maybe there is a setting I can set? Maybe it has something to do with the more specific vim configuration of one of the options when I type vim --version
in the CS50 IDE? (omitted that info here for for brevity; can add if relevant).