On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:47:29 -0600, "sc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Wednesday 13 February 2008 11:33, Nick Gravgaard wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:26:00 -0700, "Erik Falor" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > said: > > > :.,+23d > > > > How does that help you count the number of lines you want > > to delete? > > > > > On 2/13/08, Nick Gravgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:48:52 +0100, "Tony Mechelynck" > > > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > Nick Gravgaard wrote: > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > > > > > I have an idea which I think will make Vim much > > > > > > faster and easier to use. I find that over 4 lines > > > > > > or so, it becomes difficult to quickly count the > > > > > > number of lines I want to delete/yank/shift or > > > > > > whatever, and so I usually revert to using linewise > > > > > > Visual mode to select the lines > > > > > > > > I > > > > > > > > > > want to perform the operation on. Obviously it's > > > > > > much faster to (for example) press 23d than to > > > > > > press V followed by down 23 times and > > > > > > > > finally > > > > > > > > > > d to delete, but the problem is knowing how many > > > > > > lines I want to > > > > > > > > perform > > > > > > > > > > the operation on. I believe this could be easily > > > > > > rectified if Vim > > > > > > > > could > > > > > > > > > > display relative line numbers in the left hand > > > > > > margin (with the > > > > > > > > current > > > > > > > > > > line being 1, the next being 2, and so on). Then > > > > > > the user could just look down to the last line they > > > > > > want to operate on, see how many lines it is from > > > > > > the cursor, and type the command. > > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Nick > > > > > > > > > > > > PS. Similar visual hints could help users count > > > > > > words, but I can't see how it could be done without > > > > > > making the editor look cluttered. > > > > > > > > > > I guess relative line numbers would have the current > > > > > line be 0, the next one > > > > > 1, etc., > > > > > > > > At first I thought it should start at 0 too, but then I > > > > realised that it's a count, not an index. 2dd deletes 2 > > > > lines, the current line and the line below it, so it > > > > makes sense that the current line should have "1" next > > > > to it and the next line "2". > > > > > > > > > the line before the current line -1, the one before > > > > > that -2, etc. -- > > > > > > > > Can Vim use negative counts? > > > > > > > > > Vim cannot easily do that, but what it can do is > > > > > almost as good: Vim can show > > > > > absolute line numbers, the first line in the file > > > > > being 1, the next one 2, > > > > > etc. Then instead of visually selecting the lines > > > > > upon which you want to operate, you can use an > > > > > ex-command with a range, such as > > > > > > > > > > :2435,2457d > > > > > > > > Sure, but it's not as easy or as fast as 23dd though :( > > > > > > -- > > > Erik Falor > > > Registered Linux User #445632 http://counter.li.org > > nick-- > > it occurs to me, if it were possible to display > relative line numbers as you suggest, right away you > wouldn't like them -- every time you scroll they'd move > as the current line moved -- you'd never see more than > one screen of relative numbers -- so for example if you > wanted to act on several hundred lines, as you scrolled > to see how many there are the numbers would keep > changing
I thought of this too. One way to fix this would be to have an option which allowed the cursor to exist outside the visible part of the textbuffer. That way you could scroll down a couple of pages and the cursor would stay where it was. > here's a thought: open a 2nd window, put sequence > numbers in it, line it up so line 1 is across from > current in your main window, then turn on scrollbind > for both windows -- it would take some doing but you > could automate it with a script > > you do know about marks, right? I do now that I've just looked them up. Your scrollbind idea sounds interesting, but it's a bit of a hack to use 2 windows isn't it? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
