On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:36:40 +0100, "Markus Heidelberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Am Wednesday, 13. February 2008 schrieb Nick Gravgaard: > > > > 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. > > I also thought it could be useful in some cases, so I've just tried it > the last > days. Here's the patch (based on svn revision 908, latest patch 258). > > To use it set the new option 'relativenumber' or 'rnu'.
Cool. I've just had a play (thanks for the Windows exe Erik!), and I like this a lot. I know it seems a bit strange, but in order that that both 2d- and 2dd work, shouldn't it look like this instead? -3 aaaa -2 bbbb <-- 2d- deletes from the current line to here -1 cccc 1 dddd <-- current line 2 eeee <-- 2dd deletes from the current line to here 3 ffff 4 gggg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
