On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 6:59:14 PM UTC+3, Ramel Eshed wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I always felt that Vim's (actually Vi) word motions design is a bit awkward.
> Let's say that the cursor is on the word 'self' in the following line:
>
> if self.words.list[i/(j+1)] == ''
>
> If I want to take the naive way (without counting words or think of other
> commands combinations) and move the cursor to the word 'list' I'll need to
> type w 4 times. This is very annoying especially when using word motions
> inside file paths which will require x2 hits than what's actually needed.
> Also, changing 'self.words.list' is c5w and not c3w -this is very confusing
> and not intuitive.
> A simple solution might be to add an option that will indicate a list of
> characters that will be treated as white spaces. There might be a problem
> though with characters like '/' which should be treated as white space for
> unix file paths and as a word for expressions like x/y. Maybe the option
> should take regular expression instead of using 'iskeyword' like format.
>
> Also, I think that the format of 'iskeyword' is not flexible enough. Starting
> from the beginning of the above line (the word 'if') and hitting w several
> times will bring you to:
> s, ., w, ., l, [, i, /, j, +, 1, ), =, '
>
> while I'd expect it to jump to:
>
> s, w, l, [, i, /, (, j, +, 1, ), ], =, '
>
> This makes sense to me more than grouping every sequence of non 'iskeyword'
> characters together.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Ramel
Another example is editing a file path in the command line -the only way I know
to go up in the hierarchy is to press CTRL-W few times until you get to the
common ancestor directory you need. but you'll need to press CTRL-W twice for
each directory because Vim treats the '/' separator as word.
Am I the only one who finds this behavior annoying?
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