Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-25 Thread Rob
On 24 Sep 2014, wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2014, at 15:36, Marc Andr=C3=A9 Tanner wrote: > > - 'J' in visual mode is not implemented > > Why would one use it? To be able to select lines to be joined interactively instead of having to count the lines by hand (since there's no J, only J). I do this

Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-25 Thread Marc Weber
I think "Vim" sucks for this reason: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/vim_dev/Ruby$20abort$20vim$20marc/vim_dev/irITPpKnTP8/Osl0AHJUH60J (scroll down to fun! Dummy() ) for i in range(0, 2000) end for can be interrupted by a resize event and start running other code - and you don't have

Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-25 Thread random832
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014, at 08:57, Raphaël Proust wrote: > I actually have my vimrc setting K as an upward J (i.e., join current > line with the previous one) (although I haven't made the effort to > make it work in visual mode because then I just use J): > nnoremap K :.-,.join Why not just map it t

Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-25 Thread Raphaël Proust
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Marc André Tanner wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 05:33:49PM -0400, random...@fastmail.us wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014, at 15:36, Marc André Tanner wrote: >> > > - 'J' in visual mode is not implemented >> > >> > Why would one use it? >> >> To be able to select l

Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-25 Thread Marc André Tanner
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 05:33:49PM -0400, random...@fastmail.us wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014, at 15:36, Marc André Tanner wrote: > > > - 'J' in visual mode is not implemented > > > > Why would one use it? > > To be able to select lines to be joined interactively instead of having > to count the

Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-25 Thread Marc André Tanner
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 05:20:44PM -0400, random...@fastmail.us wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014, at 15:21, Marc André Tanner wrote: > > > x should not delete the end of line character (but this might be solved > > > with the placement issue above) > > > > I (and a few others? Christian Neukirchen?)

Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-25 Thread ale rimoldi
hi marc andré thank you very much for your reply and for implementing so many of the features i've mentioned! being still in digest modus and since i'm not getting the mails from the archive it's a bit of a pain to reply... > While this is true to some degree, I still think that it can be > impl