New answers tagged cursor-motions
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I assume "doesn't hold the cursor" applies to the corner case when the cursor is at the end of the line and virtualedit is empty (then <esc> will move cursor one position backward, to the last existing character). That's often an issue for insert-mode mappings.
There's :h i_ctrl-\_ctrl-o which executes one normal mode command without touching the ...
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Plugin vim-ninja-feet by tommcdo
Currently, this plugin provides following square bracket mappings (do not overlook the square in the definition):
{operator}[{text object}
Perform {operator} from the cursor to the beginning
of the text object defined by {text object}.
{operator}]{text object}
...
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For the general case, you can try creating new operators, gs and ge:
function! GoStart(type) abort
normal! `[
endfunction
function! GoEnd(type) abort
normal! `]
endfunction
nnoremap <silent> gs :set opfunc=GoStart<CR>g@
nnoremap <silent> ge :set opfunc=GoEnd<CR>g@
When Vim invokes the operator functions after you type your ...
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This doesn't answer your more general question about text objects, but you can achieve the behaviour in your specific indentation-based example with folds:
setlocal foldmethod=indent
setlocal shiftwidth=2
setlocal foldlevel=99
Setting 'foldmethod' tells Vim that you want to use indentation based folding. Setting 'shiftwidth' tells Vim the size of each ...
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Let's consider our cursor at the first line, column zero
f' ....................... jumps to the first single quote
Use visual block selection to cut the three first lines
Ctrl-v ................... starts visual block selection
2j ....................... expands to the next two lines
$ ........................ makes selection expand to the end of the ...
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There isn't really a native command to repeat a change without including the inserted text as part of the repeat.
You mentioned using a macro, but recording it (using the q command) can be tricky, since you want to end it inside insert mode. It turns out you can actually do that using qacit<C-O>q to record only cit in @a, which you can use to ...
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