Re: Some text editing improvements that would make me forget Vim

2023-06-12 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 6/12/23 00:55, Daniel wrote: On 2023-06-11 23:28, R. H. van der Gaag wrote: On 11 Jun 2023, at 18:57, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 6/11/23 10:15, R. H. van der Gaag wrote:   * find the word under the cursor (i.e. show other occurrences of     the same word, by highlighting them simult

Re: Some text editing improvements that would make me forget Vim

2023-06-11 Thread Daniel
On 2023-06-11 23:28, R. H. van der Gaag wrote: On 11 Jun 2023, at 18:57, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 6/11/23 10:15, R. H. van der Gaag wrote: […] I would love to see the following text editing commands implemented: * select around a word (cursor is on a word; the command selects th

Re: Some text editing improvements that would make me forget Vim

2023-06-11 Thread R. H. van der Gaag
On 11 Jun 2023, at 18:57, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 6/11/23 10:15, R. H. van der Gaag wrote: >> […] I would love to see the following text editing commands implemented: >> >> select around a word (cursor is on a word; the command selects the word) > Already possible: Just bind a key to w

Re: Some text editing improvements that would make me forget Vim

2023-06-11 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 6/11/23 10:15, R. H. van der Gaag wrote: [...]I would love to see the following text editing commands implemented: * select around a word (cursor is on a word; the command selects the word) Already possible: Just bind a key to word-select. (Double click on a word does this.) * s

Some text editing improvements that would make me forget Vim

2023-06-11 Thread R. H. van der Gaag
Dear developers, I muttered something about this before, but that thread petered out somehow. I find myself greatly enjoying writing my dissertation in LyX, most of the time… except when I am confronted with the limitations of text manipulation in LyX, compared to what I could do in Vim. Specifi