Make pasting replace the entire selection #7768
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This is a vim thing. If you have some text selected and you paste with "p", the pasted contents *replaces* your selection. Before this commit, Helix would append after your selection.
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there are already separate commands for this: |
pascalkuthe
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Jul 28, 2023
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Oh wow how embarrassing 😂. Carry on then! |
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Hey folks.
I don't think anyone asked for this, but it's an idea that would improve my productivity at least.
In vim, you can make a selection and then "p" to replace the selection with whatever you have yanked. I used to do this a ton in vim. It's one way to work around #3001.
This PR makes non-linewise selections replaced when pasting onto them.
Kooha-2023-07-28-16-29-38.webm
This is a breaking change so I don't really expect a merge as-is. Just wanted to bring up the idea and do some legwork as well. One alternative could be to implement this as a separate command and bind it to, say,
a-p.Anyway let me know what you think. If you have time.