On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 1:20:21 AM UTC-5, Ingo Karkat wrote:
> On 04-Jun-2012 09:17:48 -0700 (PDT), Ben Fritz wrote:
>
> > However, I think this behavior is confusing, and there is a very small
> > window of time in an editing session during which the new behavior can
> > actually be used.
>
> Right, the change is miniscule, but I don't think the new behavior is
> inconsistent or unexpected. It now amounts to a default "previous acted-on
> selection" of one character / line, and the original 1v behavior isn't
> affected
> at all.
>
I realized this on my commute this morning. That's a much nice way of looking
at it. The help text could read:
[count]v Start Visual mode per character.
With [count], select the same number of characters as
the last acted-on visual selection, multiplied by
[count], like moving the cursor right. If there is no
last acted-on visual selection, select that many
characters.
> > I think a new option, or a new 'cpo' flag, may be
> > needed to switch between the behaviors entirely if both are desired.
>
> Please no new option. I've already shown that the alternative, overriding 1v
> altogether, is trivial to implement in Vimscript.
> http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/msg/356e55ed40643ea2
> This could be placed (in commented for) in vimrc_example.vim.
>
Agreed, if it is viewed as a fallback to the real feature, not an alternate
behavior of the feature. The mapping to change behavior could be given as an
example near the help for [count]v and friends.
> > I prefer the old behavior over the new.
>
> No arguments here. In fact, I would like to have a 1v variant that also
> applies
> the last selection to the current position when is was *not* yet acted on, to
> "clone" the previous selection to another place. [count]gv isn't taken yet; I
> would love to see at patch for that.
>
Is there a reason for it to only use the last "acted-on" area, or is that an
unintended quirk? I don't see a reason to keep that limitation of the current
behavior at all.
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