On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 08:24:14AM +0100, Jan Christoph Ebersbach wrote: > Hi Marc, > > I like vis very much. It's blazing fast and comes with good defaults. > The following things I noticed: > > - Setting defaults requires patching some c file instead of config.def.h
Are you referring to the white space replacement symbols hardcoded in view.c? As mentioned elsewhere the long term goal is to move this stuff to Lua. > - Background/Foreground colors are only applied when syntax highlighting > is possible for the currently loaded file Yes true, could also be taken care of by a default lexer. > - I miss that I can't align multiple cursors in insert mode, i.e. to > align all "=" over multiple lines. The editor kakoune supports this > nicely Yes I agree multiple cursor support could certainly be improved. At the moment it is more a proof of concept (which works surprisingly well). I have some ideas I would like to try out, but unfortunately a lack of time. > - I also miss C-a and C-x for dealing with numbers .. but that's just a > minor inconvenience right now These seem to be popular? I'm just using change or replace/overwrite for these use cases. > - It took me ages to start vis with the proper VIS_PATH and VIS_THEME > settings. My installation directory for vis is ~/.local which is not > part of the default locations. Furthermore, the manpage still refers > to ~/.vis as the location where to put my personal configuration but > it is actually ~/.config/vis. I had to create a little shell script > that sets VIS_PATH and VIS_THEME before starting vis. In my opinion > these obstacles make it very hard to start playing around with it. Sorry about that. The man page should be updated now. Such problems are best debugged using something like: $ strace -o log -e open vis && cat log > Since I'm using a light terminal background, I recreated the papercolor > theme. Please feel free to integrate it: > https://github.com/jceb/dotfiles/blob/master/config/vis/lexers/themes/papercolor.lua Thanks, I will take a look! Marc -- Marc André Tanner >< http://www.brain-dump.org/ >< GPG key: 10C93617
