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2014-09-19 Thread Kartik Agaram
I just joined this list. Are there downloadable archives somewhere (ideally in mbox format) for offline browsing? Kartik http://akkartik.name/about

Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-19 Thread Maxime Coste
Hello, On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 03:13:28PM +0100, Raphaël Proust wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Maxime Coste wrote: > > […] > > That was one of the motivations for swapping selection and operation order > > in > > Kakoune (haters gonna hate...), by decoupling selections from the operat

Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-19 Thread Raphaël Proust
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Maxime Coste wrote: > […] > That was one of the motivations for swapping selection and operation order in > Kakoune (haters gonna hate...), by decoupling selections from the operator, > you > can express arbitrarily complex selection operations, you have a (rather

Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-19 Thread Maxime Coste
Hello On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 02:45:37PM +0200, Hugues Evrard wrote: > === TL;DR === > - editing command could use abstractions that are independent from the >actual source code syntax > - e.g., say "comment this line" rather than "add at the >beginning of the line" > - pro: offer unif

Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-19 Thread Raphaël Proust
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Hugues Evrard wrote: > […] > However, such abstractions require the editor to know the structure of > language being edited. If this means having a parser for each language > under edition, then I think it's better to not have such abstractions. > Still, the inform

Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-19 Thread Martti Kühne
> Let me give an example: > - we want to comment a block of code > - we edit C-like code, i.e.: >- let's say a block of code is defined by text between the next "{" > and its matching "}" >- comment means add "//" at the beginning of the line > > To realize this on "level 2" commands

Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-19 Thread Hugues Evrard
Hi all, On 09/17/14 22:12, ale rimoldi wrote: > >> Could some vim expert on the list tell me whether it is possible to >> indent the next n lines by m levels in vim? > > the simplest one already works in vis. indent n lines (or better a > "{" inner area) and repeat the action with dots (eventually