Vegard Øye <[email protected]> writes: > On 2011-02-19 15:37, Sébastien Rocca-Serra wrote: > >> I just wrote a small function to emulate Vim’s i_CTRL_E and >> i_CTRL_Y. Please feel free to use it, change the names, or not use >> it. The code is here: http://gist.github.com/834957 > > Thanks for your contribution. I'm forwarding this to the mailing list, > as Štěpán Němec sent me some similar code recently, which also deals > with tabs and control characters. It's added in commit 853ba91. > > I wonder about the prefix argument, though. Currently, it specifies > the number of lines to move forward or backward, like in your > implementation. Wouldn't it make better sense to specify the number of > characters to copy? I don't see myself typing "C-3 C-e C-3 C-e" to > copy text character by character from three lines ahead, but I might > do "C-5 C-e" to get a chunk of characters at once. What do you think?
Well, that's what the code I sent you does. It copies PREFIX characters from the first non-blank line above/below the current one. It certainly makes more sense to me that way. Not that I actually use the prefix argument -- I just lean on C-y/e until I copy as much as needed. ;-) Maybe the most useful version would be to only provide a prefix argument at the beginning to mean Nth non-blank line above/below and then use that line for all subsequent C-y/es. Wouldn't be hard to do, I've never felt that need, though. Štěpán _______________________________________________ implementations-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/implementations-list
