Bug#177735: marked as forwarded (vim: when formatprg is set, "gq" moves cursor to beginning rather than end)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #177735,
regarding vim: when formatprg is set, "gq" moves cursor to beginning rather than end
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net>.

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From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
To: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net>
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Subject: [vim] cursor placement after "gq" wrt "formatprg"
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Cursor placemente after gq depends on formatprg. If it is set then the
cursor stays where it was, otherwise it moves (smartly) to the end of
the formatter area.

As reported by a debian user this inconsistency is annoying. I digged a
bit in the code; "gq" when formatprg is set is handled via stuffReadbuff
in normal.c. I don't know how to discover how many lines of text have
been generated by the external program, but once this datum is known
cursor could be set properly since the OP_FORMAT case is handled
separately from others.

If you give me a pointer on how to discover the number of lines I could
provide a patch for this bug.

Full bug report from the user (Cc-ed) follows.

> Package: vim
> Version: 1:6.1-290+1
> Severity: normal
>=20
> Hello,
>=20
> When the 'formatprg' option is set, the "gq" command in Vim moves the
> cursor to the beginning rather than the end of the reformatted region of
> text.  This inconsistency is gratuitous and should be removed (or would
> backward compatibility with existing macros be an issue?).

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