Ingo, thanks a lot; both IndentCommentPrefix and CountJump seem very promising. I will play with them.
Regards, Sam On Dec 20, 7:46 pm, Ingo Karkat <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17-Dec-2010 22:17, Ingo Karkat wrote: > > > > > On 17-Dec-2010 21:24, Samuel Ferencik wrote: > >> Hi, > > >> DCL is a scripting language for OpenVMS, whose lines of code must all > >> start with > >> a $. > > (...) > >> Is there any clever way that the following features could work with this > >> kind of > >> code? > > >> 1) dap (delete a paragraph): this currently deletes the whole source file - > >> because there are no empty lines between paragraphs (an "empty" line must > >> contain at least the $) > > > You'd have to (over-)write the "a paragraph" text object in Vimscript. > > There are > > a few libraries that help with that. Incidentally, I have written one, > > CountJump. > > http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3130 > > I wish I could include a line that would magically invoke the script to > > just do > > what you need, but it's not yet that trivial. However, I do have a use case > > quite similar to DCL, and once I get to implement that, it should be one > > line. > > But also have a look at the other scripts referenced on the plugin page; > > maybe > > one of those is a better fit. > > I sat down and implemented the missing bits. With the just released CountJump > version 1.40, you should be able to define section motions ]], ][, [[ and [] > via: > > call CountJump#Region#Motion#MakeBracketMotion( '<buffer>', '', '', > '^\$\s*\S', 1) > > and overwrite the inner/outer paragraph text objects via: > > call CountJump#Region#TextObject#Make( '<buffer>', 'p', 'ai', 'V', > '^\$\s*\S', 1 ) > > Both of these assume that lines containing just "$" followed by whitespace do > not belong to a paragraph. > > I hope this helps! > > -- regards, ingo -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
