On 2013-06-21, Shane Thornton wrote:
> Cool, I am a new Vim user. I noticed one thing that was a little odd at first
> and thought I may as well mention it. It is in regards to the t/T/f/F/;/,
> functionality. It seems a bit inconsistent and could be more powerful and
> intuitive with some adjustments. Currently, t/T doesn't work with either
> repeat
> to cycle forwards/backwards further than the closest match, unlike f,F which
> does.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, it works for me. Starting in each
case with the cursor on the first letter of your first line above,
2fn and fn; both move to the 'n' in 'noticed' and 2tn and tn; both
move to the space in front of 'noticed'.
> It would be more powerful, and not really affect current user
> understanding to let it work like f/F and go further than the closest matches.
> Also, it would be very helpful to have t/T/f/F/;/, all work multiline instead
> of
> just one line. The multiline functioning makes it more consistent with / & ?,
> to
> make it further intuitive you could even make f/t work with n/N and open up
> ;/,
> to be unused for people to map commands to. Using n/N would be preferable
> anyway
> considering using two different keys to instead one to go back and forth is
> more
> complex. There is a plugin that does some of these well called ft_improved
> but I
> think the functionality if included would get much more exposure and improve
> Vim's user experience overall, and reasonably easy to implement.
As interesting as this discussion could be, it's about 37 years too
late. It doesn't matter whether this behavior would be easy to
learn, easy to implement or work better, it would be different from
the standard behavior. If you want something different, you'll have
to deal with a plugin. See
:help design-compatible
Regards,
Gary
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