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you will be surrounded (surround.vim for evil, the extensible vi layer)

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use prefix to save-excursion

mohkale opened this issue · comments

commented

I'd like to add support for preventing the point from changing when you run something like ds or cs. Quite often, when you're in the middle of a string and decide to change the delimeter from " to ', you don't want to be taken back to the start of it. I think the best way to implement this would be with a single prefix... so... C-u cs"' would run cs"' and then return your point to where you began.

Thoughts?

commented

Hi @mohkale,

maybe an option like evil provides, :move-point, would be great for this use case.

commented

I can't read latex to save my life... and I can't find any move-point like variables in emacs (through ivy fuzzy search). Typing :move-point just prints out Invalid address. Could you clarify what move-point is and how it addresses this problem?

commented

Also... to clarify. I don't want to permenently change the behaviour, simply toggle it in the use cases where I don't want it to happen. for example, when I'm in ruby double and single speech marks have different affects regarding interpolation within the string. In that case, when I change the delimeter I would want to move to the start of it so that I can then start replacing any interpolation within it. In python, when I change the delimeter it won't make any difference so I'd probably want to stay where my point was.

a case by case tweak of behaviour is what I want here. by convention, I believe, you use a prefix argument for that.

commented

Hi @mohkale, :move-point is an option which evil (not evil-surround) provides for some of it's commands where it makes sense, such as yank. You can see in this section, that I use :move-point to configure yank's behaviour to my liking (although I think that this setting is the default behaviour):

 (evil-set-command-property 'evil-yank :move-point t) ; I could set it to nil to stop point from moving

further, this prefix behaviour you are looking for does not exist in vim-surround, as far as I am aware. As evil and evil-surround try to mimic their vim counterparts to the fullest, I believe that this feature you are looking for could be best implemented in a separate plugin.

commented

closing because vim-surround does not provide the functionality. functionality best provided through an extra plugin.