On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 05:41:00PM +0000, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
> On 1 March 2016 at 17:12, Marc André Tanner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > All commands of a group should operate on the original state of the text.
>
> Is that strictly necessary? I know that's how sam and acme behave, but
I haven't yet made my mind up. It obviously changes the semantics of the
command language.
> series of commands outside those {} blocks occur in sequence (not all
> performing on the original text), and to be honest that seems like it
> might be more intuitive.
As an example, swapping two words with
,x[a-zA-Z]+/{
g/fred/ v/...../ c/jim/
g/jim/ v/..../ c/fred/
}
which is mentioned in both the sam tutorial and the cheatsheet would
no longer work.
> It would also be much easier to implement.
Yes, I agree.
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