On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 11:10:39 PM UTC-5, Kent Sibilev wrote: > On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 8:14:20 PM UTC-5, 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 > > > > Maybe i'm missing something, but you don't need to patch Vim in order to get > this functionality. What you need is kana's textobj pluing: > > > > https://github.com/kana/vim-textobj-user > > > > along with textobj-between > > > > https://github.com/thinca/vim-textobj-between > > > > Also you can check kana's other projects where he provides many other useful > text objects like: > > > > https://github.com/kana/vim-textobj-line > > https://github.com/kana/vim-textobj-indent > > etc.
Yes, there are plenty of ways to make custom text-objects without editing Vim. However, everything you've listed require the end-user list the desired objects ahead of time. You could loop over the character range in a plugin or vimrc and make them all, or make an operator-mode mapping to a function that calls getchar() then tries to either make it on-the-fly or fall back to existing things, but all of these options get ugly fast. Adding three lines to normal.c ends up being much quicker and cleaner. -- -- 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.
