On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 8:27:22 PM UTC-6, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On 14/11/13 03:06, Ben Fritz wrote: > > > On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 7:14:20 PM UTC-6, Daniel "paradigm" Thau > > wrote: > > >> Attached is a patch to add an 'autotextobject' setting which will treat > > >> undefined text-objects like quote text objects, using the provided > > >> character as bounds. For example, with this setting if a user enters > > >> > > >> "di," with the cursor between two commas, the text between the commas > > >> will be removed. This is very useful for editing lists. Similarly, if > > >> one is composing TeX being able to quickly operate on the area between > > >> > > >> dollar signs is useful. If one is editing snake_case_variables, being > > >> able to do a quick "ci_" is also nice. The key here is that it happens > > >> on-the-fly with all as-of-yet-undefined objects without requiring the > > >> > > >> user consider every possible character he/she would be interested in > > >> ahead of time. > > >> > > >> Outside of documentation and adding the setting itself, the it is only a > > >> few additional lines of code. > > >> > > >> I've wanted this feature for a while; if there is anything else I should > > >> > > >> do to help get it upstreamed do let me know and I'll see what I can do. > > >> > > >> - Daniel Thau > > > > > > I cannot get this patch to apply using either whatever "patch" utility is > > installed on Solaris or GNU patch on Windows. Can you please post in a > > different patch format? No matter how I tweak the patch file, and no matter > > what I put for the -p value, I cannot get it to apply. The best it does is > > tell me the patch looks like a unified context diff and then ask me for a > > file to patch. > > > > > > > It looks like something that ought to apply with -p1 starting at the top > > of your Vim source directory tree (with the parent of src/ runtime/ etc. > > being the current directory)
Yeah, that's what I tried first. Didn't work. > but I didn't try to see if it works. I have > > the impression that it was made by "git diff" or somesuch after > > converting the Mercurial repository to git form. That was my thought as well. > You might try "hg > > qimport" (with the mq extension enabled), Don't have it and can't install it on the Solaris machine. Does that work if the directory is a zip downloaded from Github instead of a real repository? My workplace blocks all outgoing Hg, Git, and SVN connections. > and if it doesn't work at > > first try, you may want to remove the "index" lines in the patch. I tried that too, for the patch utility. > See > > "hg help qimport" and possibly "hg help qqueue" et al. for details. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
