Am 13.03.2017 um 22:29 schrieb Bram Moolenaar:
Andy Wokula wrote:
Am 13.03.2017 um 21:00 schrieb Ben Fritz:
On Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 10:33:06 AM UTC-5, Bram Moolenaar
wrote:
Someone noticed that although $ takes a count to go down (count -
1) lines, the ^ does not. Since currently the count is ignored, we
could make it used to go (count - 1) lines up.
Would this break anything?
We currently have _ and g_ that are similar to ^ and $, except that ^
doesn't take a count.
_ goes downward or stays on the same line. To move up, you can use -,
which always goes up, it won't stay on the same line.
It would make more sense for me if ^ went downward rather than upward
when given a count. This would be consistent with existing commands.
But I won't be extremely disappointed if it goes upward instead, it
would just be one more oddity in an editor full of such quirks. :-)
I'd vote for [count]^ going to the [count]th character in the line.
(We can easily go to the [count]th screen column and to the [count]th
byte, but not yet to the [count]th character, unless I'm missing
something).
You can already use 3| to go to the third screen position. Only with
double-wide characters you would see a difference with character count.
For me, because of tab characters.
Anyway, the most important aspect of ^ is that it goes to the first
non-blank character. Adding a count, similar to what that does to $,
should move lines up or down. Perhaps going down is better than going
up, but moving horizontally goes against logic.
How is `^' stricter related to `$' than `|'?
Because of the similar meaning in regexp-patterns?
But then it's odd that `^' moves to the first non-blank instead of
the very first character.
(or `$' should move to the last non-blank in the line).
--
Andy
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