On Thursday, November 14, 2013 6:24:42 AM UTC-5, Daniel "paradigm" Thau wrote: > On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 11:10:39 PM UTC-5, Kent Sibilev wrote: > > 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 > > 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.
With textobj-between plugin installed you don't need to loop over and make a mapping for every possible character. The plugin adds a single text object activated by pressing 'f'. So if you want to delete a content between to underscores (_) characters, you press dif_. If you want change text between two dollar sign characters you press cif$, etc. Also I don't understand how the aforementioned fallback would work in practice. For example, if I edit an html content <h1>aat....tbb</h1> and my cursor is on one of the dot characters. Is it true that pressing dit would delete only dots characters instead of all tag's content? -- -- 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.
