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

[Alessandro Piras]

On 10/23/06, Brad Beveridge <brad.beveridge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/10/06, Alessandro Piras <laynor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > (define-bindings
> > > >   (*join-lines-command-binding* "J")
> > > >   (*change-single-line-from-active-binding* "cc")
> > > >    .....)
> > > > This would make changing actual bindings clearer I think. Also I think that
> > > > surely there's a better way to do something like this than "defining a bunch
> > > > of variables", but I'm a noob and now i
> > > > thought of it as a simple method =)
> > > Hmm, I don't understand what you mean exactly here, but just looking
> > > at the code I don't really like the way it sits on the page :)  I'm
> > > not sure why we need the global vars.
> >
> > The thing I thought is about making it easier for the (end) user to
> > change some bindings. I guess there's a better way to do it than
> > global variables, maybe putting the bindings in a hash table or
> > something like that...
> > Doing so the end user can modify the bindings (or add new ones)  just
> > putting (*<name--of-the-command>-bindings* "hk") inside the define
> > bindings form instead of having to deal with define-pattern forms
> > (that are also repeated thru all the code, so making a macro is not a
> > bad thing I think).
> Ah, I see what you mean.  I think one of the strongest points of Vim
> is that there is a fairly standard key map that people generally don't
> deviate from.  For example, I type Dvorak and have only changed the
> home row movement keys jkhl to htjk.  h and t for up and down, j and k
> for left and right.  Vial currently supports this kind of remapping
> (the same as Vim's :map command), so that you can map any single
> keypress to any other single keypress, or in fact a single keypress to
> multiple keypresses, ie "D" -> "dd" perhaps.
> I think this level of remapping is probably sufficient.  The
> DEFINE-PATTERN macro is not really meant to be used by end users, only
> for adding the default mappings.
> Does that make sense?
>
> Cheers
> Brad
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Yeah, I forgot that way to remap, cause i saw it only once when
commenting out your dvorak mappings =) I also guess that the kind of
remapping vial offers is enough, so forget the proposal :)
 I have just a question about it that I'll make in irc.
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Alessandro