Am 27.11.2012 15:26, schrieb KamilS:
I primarily use Vim for LaTeX, i.e. for editing text rather than code,
and I was wondering if it's possible to make Vim handle whitespace in
a smarter way when cutting and pasting in in .tex files.
In particular, I would like to see the kind of behaviour I know and
love from Adobe InDesign. Let me give you an example:
Sentence one. Sentence two. Sentence three.
Now, if I select "Sentence two." (just this much, without the
surrounding spaces) and cut it, InDesign will automatically delete one
of the two remaining subsequent spaces. If I then paste it between
"Sentence" and "three", never mind on which side of the space between
them, InDesign will automatically add the missing space before or
after it.
The same happens with single words. Which makes sense because when you
write text, you want to cut and paste words most of the time, not just
bits of words.
Is it possible to implement this kind of behaviour in Vim and limit it
to .tex files? Or is there perhaps a plugin for it already, only I
couldn't find it?
I've created smartput.vim for this purpose. It adjusts spaces when text
is pasted (or `put' in vimspeak) (rather than when text is deleted).
That works fine with Vim's sentence text objects
:h as
:h is
and motions
:h (
:h )
which (when deleting text) either let you decide how much whitespace to
include (`is' vs. `as') or include the whitespace after a sentence
(`)').
When putting a word between other words (or in the middle of a word),
smartput inserts spaces around the inserted word.
Smartput is a global plugin, you can enable/disable it globally (by a
key `<Leader>st') or turn it off for a filetype where it is unwanted
(this is a little different from what you want).
There are rules (global or buffer-local variables) to adjust when to
insert/remove a space ... yet this system is not as flexible (and user
friendly ^^) as it could be.
Yep, smartput.vim is quite old (omg, last update 2007-12-16, sorry), but
it should do what you want. I use it myself all the time (a modified,
half-way-ready unreleased version though).
--
Andy
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