OK, I'll hold my horses, waiting for updates on this thread. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Kent Tenney <[email protected]> wrote: >> Starting a new thread >> >>>> 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. >> >> Maybe some confusion: requiring the <return> is a big problem, >> requires learning the 3rd set of bindings. > > Kent, I do understand. Really. > > In the real vim, nothing happens if you type :r. You must either type > :r<return> or :r <filename><return> > > The "solution" I am working on is to allow exactly this operation. At > present, you must indeed type:: > > :r<return><return> > > or:: > > :r<return><filename><return> > > but that initial extra <return> is to go away asap. > >> status report: >> >> - 'V' should provide line mode visual, it inserts a 'V' at cursor >> - 'v' starts visual character mode, 'y' should end visual mode and yank, 'y' >> is ignored until another 'v' >> - aliasing <return> to 'i' is confusing, in vim it advances cursor to next >> line >> - 'x' is backspace in Leo, delete in vim >> >> - '/' and '?' look good, with 'n' going to next find > > Thanks. I'll look into these. > >> wish list: >> >> - :s /text/replace with this/<scope flag> > > All substitutions require the "solution" we are talking about. It > will happen asap. > > Once that is in place, a vim-mode parser can deal with the entire > command line at once. This is inherently a simpler problem than > dealing with characters one at a time, but it will require new code. > > In short, I am aware of the parsing problems and I appreciate the > status/bug report. I expect to have everything finished in about a > week. > > Edward > > -- > 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.
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