You're quite right, though diw does the job
* only for spaces and tabs, but does not trim, i.e. it leaves
the words glued together, e.g.,
textbefore_____<cursor>______textafter -->
textbeforetextafter
which requires typing an aditional space
* Does not trim vertical whitespace (newlines)
What i had in mind was approximately that
* di_ is the same as diw + additional space, e.g.
textbefore_____<cursor>______textafter --> textbefore
textafter
*while da_ trims also vertical whitespace (if present), e.g.,
_______textbefore______
____\n
______ \n
<cursor>
___\n
___\n
_______textafter --> textbefore textafter
If there is not vertical whitespace, da_ should double the
functionality of di_.
On Nov 23, 2:38 am, "Kana Natsuno" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:59:37 +0900, pepegnu <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Consider the following situation, you edit the text (underscore
> > represents whitespace):
>
> > blah-blah-blah_____________________<cursor
> > here>___________________blah-blah-blah again
>
> > Now, it seems that '_' (underscore) is a free token in the context of
> > a text-object. If defined as a new text-object for whitespace, one
> > will be able to trim whitespace around the cursor in the example above
> > by issuing da_ (mnemonics: delete-a-blank), or ci_ (change-in-blank)
> > in normal mode to get
>
> > blah-blah-blah blah-blah-blah again
>
> It seems to be somewhat useful, but:
>
> - What is the differences between a_ and i_?
>
> - Currently iw on spaces serves as your a_/i_.
> Isn't it enough? If not so, why?
>
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