Hi everyone, I have an idea which I think will make Vim much faster and easier to use. I find that over 4 lines or so, it becomes difficult to quickly count the number of lines I want to delete/yank/shift or whatever, and so I usually revert to using linewise Visual mode to select the lines I want to perform the operation on. Obviously it's much faster to (for example) press 23d than to press V followed by down 23 times and finally d to delete, but the problem is knowing how many lines I want to perform the operation on. I believe this could be easily rectified if Vim could display relative line numbers in the left hand margin (with the current line being 1, the next being 2, and so on). Then the user could just look down to the last line they want to operate on, see how many lines it is from the cursor, and type the command.
Cheers, Nick PS. Similar visual hints could help users count words, but I can't see how it could be done without making the editor look cluttered. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
