Is there a setting that will allow vim to remember the column it was on, even if traverses a line who's EOL is less?

Question

Is there a setting that will allow vim to remember the column it was on, even if traverses a line who's EOL is less?

Consider the following lines:

foo bar
foo
foo bar

Say my cursor position is the underscore:

foo b_r
foo
foo bar

If I hit jj, the cursor ends up here:

foo bar
foo
fo_ bar

But I want it to remember where it is on line 1 and go there on line 3 since it's available.

foo bar
foo
foo b_r

EDIT: When I disable minibufexpl.vim, the problem goes away, so it's a problem with that plugin. Anyone know what's up?

Answer 1

It should go to the same column by default. Have you tried starting Vim as

$ vim -N -u NONE

or

$ gvim -N -u NONE

and performing your experiment again?

One thing that can cause this behavior is a plugin that uses the CursorHold autocommand. If such an autocommand performs certain actions when it executes, it will cause your cursor to move as you describe. You can check for the existence of such autocommands with

:au CursorHold

Answer 2

Since I don't have enough reputation to comment on your question, I'll post as an answer instead.

Have you tried set virtualedit=all?