On Thursday, November 14, 2013 8:52:22 AM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 10:29:18 PM UTC-6, 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.
> >
> > I don't think this can be done properly without adding another
> > character, thus making the text selection a three-character operation.
> >
>
> Why not? What is the reasoning behind a third character?
Oh, I think I get it now.
I actually think this could work really well.
What about another DEFINED text object, that would work on pairs of
arbitrary characters? Only that one text object would work this way, the
rest would be as they are now.
Then a user could type something like "vam," for "a matched , pair" or
"dim^" for "delete inside matched ^ pair".
If the new text object "im{char}" and "am{char}" were used instead of an
undefined and future incompatible "i{char}" and "a{char}" then you don't
need to worry about future changes breaking scripts or anything like
that. Additionally you can use this feature for alternate behaviors for
currently defined text object characters, for example if you want to
change inside B characters for some reason, or inside >> operators in
C/C++, etc.
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