Hi Edward
On Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 1:33:16 PM UTC, Edward K. Ream wrote:
>
> I was about to file an enhancement item, but perhaps we should discuss
> this first.
>
> I have grown fond of using ctrl-up/down arrows to move entire lines. Much
> easier than copy/paste, and easier on my hands and wrists.
>
> I would like to use ctrl-left/right arrows in a similar manner, but the
> standard bindings move the cursor by words. I don't think we can change
> that. However, if there is a text selection, I think ctrl-left/right could
> move the selected text left or right by one character.
>
> Your comments, please.
>
> Edward
>
Hmm - as you will have seen recently I have been trying to get back to a
'microproject' of adding some editing primitives to Leo to allow it to
(optionally) work a bit more like CRiSP (Brief editor bindings)
As it happens I have just now been working on the functionality of:
ALT+D = delete current line
ALT+K = delete to end of (current) line
and some other ways of working that I find make the Brief bindings very
usable:
KeyPad-Minus = 'cut current selection to clipboard'; if nothing
currently selected then default to 'cut current line to clipboard'
KeyPad-Plus = 'copy current selection to clipboard'; if nothing
currently selected then default to 'copy current line to clipboard'
KeyPad-Insert = 'paste current clipboard'
(We have previously discussed, I think, that there are problems with
binding to these 'KeyPad-XXX' keys; I was hoping to press you about those
when I have the underlying functionality working!)
Together these make moving or copying single lines up and down quite easy;
Keypad-Minus # or KeyPad-plus for copy
move cursor
Keypad-Insert
I can see the benefit of using similar bindings to the tree 'move node'
commands in the body as 'move line' commands. I guess I would just like to
flag some of the above as alternate ways of working (and give you a heads
up on some candidates for inclusion in core)...
Regards
Jon N
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