Bram: thank you for your explanation, I still have a lot to learn about
different terminology in vim. Every time I learn something new like
this, a whole avenue of new ways to work opens up, which really excites
me.
Scott: As someone else mentioned, it basically formats the current scope
(including the opening and closing braces). Often when I am writing code
I manage to break the auto indenting (missing brackets at the end of
conditionals, etc) and rather than going around and indenting each line
correctly I just write the code in a poorly formatted way and then do
=a{ at the end to clean it all up.
Things like a( work as well. I have no idea what Ruby syntax is like,
but if scope isn't marked by {} then it won't work! :)
My manager (also an AI Engineer) regularly gets annoyed when he is
watching me write some code and I manage to do things in vi ridiculously
fast. It seems like I'm even managing to convert some other people here
to using it; I was approached by another engineer last week and asked if
I thought vim would increase his productivity. Needless to say I said
yes immediately.
Max
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott LaBounty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 6:49 AM
> To: vim@vim.org
> Subject: Re: Motions in visual(line|block)
>
> Max,
>
> OK, I'll bite. What does "=a{" do? The "=" is a format, and the "{"
> moves to the start of a class (at least that's what is does in the
ruby
> file I tested this on). So, what's the "a" do in this command? Lord
> knows, anything that annoys my Visual Studio colleagues is all right
> with me.
>
> Scott LaBounty
> Nexa Technologies, Inc.
>
> Max Dyckhoff wrote:
> > I've noticed that using some motions - specifically "i{" and
suchlike -
> > will cancel a visual line/block and turn it into regular visual mode
> > instead, which is rather annoying. Is this intentional, or a bug?
> >
> > I should just mention that my new favourite command is "=a{", which
> > makes me smile every time I use it, and which really annoys my
Visual
> > Studio using colleagues.
> >
> > Chairs!
> > --
> > Max Dyckhoff
> > AI Engineer
> > Bungie Studios
> >
> >
> >
> >
