[vial-devel] darcs patch: normal mode commands, cc, c<motion>, s, S, -, +, J, X

[Brad Beveridge]

On 23/10/06, laynor at gmail.com <laynor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mon Oct 23 17:59:36 CEST 2006  laynor at gmail.com
>   * normal mode commands, cc, c<motion>, s, S, -, +, J, X
>   Added some normal mode commands:
>   "cc": change the active line
>   "c<motion>": change the region defined by <motion>
>   "s": subst char, deletes a character like "x" and then goes to insert mode
>   "S": subst line, same as "cc"
>   "-": goto previous line beginning, moves the cursor to previous line at the 1st column
>   "+": goto next line beginning, moves the cursor to the next line at the 1st column
>   "X": deletes previous char (like backspace in insert mode, but it works in normal mode)
>   "J": Joins the active line and the next line, It deserves to be fixed, because the undo is
>        broken (it popups the debugger when the command has no effect (when applied on the last line))
>
>   ---- Strange Behaviors (with respect to vim) ----
>   "c<motion>"   doesnt behave the same as vim, just try it in gvim and in vial, it's faster than
>                 trying to explain it here. In particular, "cj" doesnt open a new line after deleting,
>                 and cw eats the backspace that separates words.
>   ---- Broken behavior ----
>   join-lines-command ("J") breaks the undo. To reproduce this behavior, just go to the last line of a file
>   and press J, and then undo.

Nice!  I'll look at it tonight after work and roll it in.  I think
I'll start a couple of new files:
vim-differences.txt - a list of differences to Vim
known-bugs.txt    - known bugs in Vial

Thanks a lot for the patch!

Cheers
Brad