On Thursday, November 14, 2013 6:31:12 AM UTC-5, Daniel "paradigm" Thau wrote: > On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 11:29:18 PM UTC-5, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Daniel 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. > > > > > > > > The problem is that this only works for characters that are not taken > > > > yet. Thus if we add another text-object type the behavior changes. > > > > It's like reserving all remaining characters to use for this feature. > > > > > > > > I don't think this can be done properly without adding another > > > > character, thus making the text selection a three-character operation. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Looking at Perl through Lisp glasses, Perl looks atrocious. > > > > > > > > /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ > > > > /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ > > > > \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// > > > > \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// > > My hope was that we could simply add a disclaimer saying that these are not > reserved and any new text object added in the future would take precident > over these. My patch includes some wording along those lines in the > documentation. If that is not acceptable, but making this a three-character > option is, I'll be happy alter it accordingly.
As an alternative to a three-character option, it doesn't look like "I" or "A" do anything in operator-pending (but they do in visual mode). Perhaps would could utilize those for catch-all text-objects (and limit it to only working in operator-pending)? -- -- 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.
