ch@dce.ie (Charles Bryant) (01/03/91)
In article <1021@pdxgate.UUCP> kirkenda@eecs.UUCP (Steve Kirkendall) writes: >New subject: >In the next version of Elvis, the "v" key will be used to visibly mark one >some text for one of the operator commands. You press "v" and the character >that the cursor's on will be hilighted. As you move the cursor around, the >hilighted area stretches to include all characters between the original >position and the current cursor position. When you hit one of the operator >keys, the operator is *immediately* applied to the hilighted text. > >The "Shift-V" key will do the same thing, but it will act on whole lines >instead of characters. I think it would be better to invent a new mark (probably . because its beside m). When this mark exists the text between the mark and the cursor is highlighted. That allows all the operators to work without any changes. Since vi puts operator before operand, I don;t think it would be a good idea to change this around for some cases and leave it for others. Also a seperate v and V are not needed since ' and ` already use line and character context. -- Charles Bryant (ch@dce.ie) -- /usr/ch/.signature: Block device required