patch 8.1.0125: virtual edit replace with multi-byte fails at end of line commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/630afe889a2a02b367ea8eaaa48e66ed81e77ff3 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Thu Jun 28 19:26:28 2018 +0200 patch 8.1.0125: virtual edit replace with multi-byte fails at end of line Problem: Virtual edit replace with multi-byte fails at end of line. (Lukas Werling) Solution: use ins_char() to add the character. (Christian Brabandt, closes #3114) Rename PCHAR() to PBYTE() to avoid mistakes like this.

--- a/src/macros.h
+++ b/src/macros.h
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
  */
 
 /*
- * PCHAR(lp, c) - put character 'c' at position 'lp'
+ * PBYTE(lp, c) - put byte 'c' at position 'lp'
  */
-#define PCHAR(lp, c) (*(ml_get_buf(curbuf, (lp).lnum, TRUE) + (lp).col) = (c))
+#define PBYTE(lp, c) (*(ml_get_buf(curbuf, (lp).lnum, TRUE) + (lp).col) = (c))
 
 /*
  * Position comparisons