Re: [vile] Question about regions

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Paul Fox wrote:

> thomas wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Paul Fox wrote:
> ...
> > > never use), i had to type
> > >    ds<motion>q
> > > instead of
> > >    ds<motion>s
> > > which is what i think i would have expected.
> >
> > Perhaps you did what I tried first, something like
> >
> >    bind-key quoted-fullline-motion s
> >
> > vile's looking for the selection-modjj key bindings at that point,
> > rather than the default key bindings.
> >
> > This works:
> >
> >    bind-selmode-key quoted-fullline-motion s
>
> huh.  i'd never seen bind-selmode-key.   but it seems like

I added that in 9.1i (May 2000).

 20000519 (i)
        > Tom Dickey:
        + add key binding for select mode, use that rather than insert mode
          binding.

(not that my memory is that good - I used rcshist to show all of the 
changes to cmdtbl, and searched for the first occurrence)

> i have to do both of:
>         bind-key quoted-fullline-motion s
>         bind-selmode-key quoted-fullline-motion s
> for it to work the way i'd expect.  (i guess it's good that the
> "enter" and "leave" keys can be different -- i just expected them
> to be the same by default.)

well, they are - by default - the same keycode.  But they're tested in
different modes.

Perhaps we need a command to compare key-bindings between modes...

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