>NP. I am relying on you to test vim mode. I gave myself an early >birthday present (I turn 65 tomorrow) and disabled vim mode.
:! echo "Happy Birthday Edward!" > /tmp/hb.txt : r /tmp/hb.txt <return> (works in REAL vim) :P On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Kent Tenney <[email protected]> wrote: >> Are you trying to replicate vim operation or has there >> been a 'fork' and bindings are vim-like? > > The former. > >> IE: do you keep vim open and check it's operation against Leo? > > Yes. > >> I see in current commit message: >> Added :r <return>filename<return> ... >> >> this works as described, but being different than vim, it becomes >> a confusing 3rd set of bindings to learn. > > I discussed this problem and its solution here this morning: > Aha: vim mode is a great success, even when not enabled > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/leo-editor/_KvHWDWdhaM/b4epOlLLcKMJ > >> In vim it is spelled >> : <optional whitespace> r filename <return> > > The optional whitespace isn't going to happen: the name of the command > is :r. You could call this a limitation of the @g.command decorator. > It could be fixed, by why bother? > >> in vim :r<return> pastes a copy of the current file at the cursor > > I didn't know that. It will be easy to do once the solution referred > to in this morning's post is in place. See the P.P.S in that post. > >> There seems to be a world view difference: in vim, ':' enters >> command mode, in vim-mode, the ':' seems attached to a >> command, not sure how this plays out. > > I don't think it's a big deal. In practice, :r will work fine. It's a > tiny compromise necessitated by the fact that we are actually using > Leo's minibuffer, and everything it offers, including typing > completion for command names. And soon, dired mode. > >> If differences can't be helped, that's ok, and won't be a >> problem for Leo users learning vim through Leo's bindings. >> It is a problem for fingers trained by vim usage. > > The extra return problem will be fixed, as described in this morning's post. > >> (you are being haunted by the ghost of 'I hope they complain') :=] ) > > NP. I am relying on you to test vim mode. I gave myself an early > birthday present (I turn 65 tomorrow) and disabled vim mode. > Hahahahahaha. But as the post says, there are advantages to vim mode > even when it is not enabled. dired-like operation will be one of > them: access to : commands will be another. > > EKR > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
