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kakoune plugin to copy the current selection up and downwards to all lines matching the current selection.
Add vertical-selection.kak to your autoload directory,~/.config/kak/autoload, or source it manually.
The script defines three commands: select-down, select-up and select-vertically. They respectively select all lines directly below, above and both that contain the current selection at the same position.
Calling any of the commands with a multi-line selection is undefined behavior.
I suggest the following mappings:
map global user v ': vertical-selection-down<ret>'
map global user <a-v> ': vertical-selection-up<ret>'
map global user V ': vertical-selection-up-and-down<ret>'
See also kakoune-text-objects, for integrating this plugin into your text objects.
The test.kak_ file contains tests for the plugin. To execute these tests, simply run kak -n -e 'source test.kak_ ; quit': if the kakoune instance stays open, the tests have somehow failed and the current state can be inspected.
This was suggested as a primitive by @rouanth on 2017-01-09
(#1115)
and was followed by an implementation by patching the kakoune source code
(#1116).
The suggested keybinding in the patch was ^.
- #1115: Binding to copy selections vertically to equal substrings
- #1116: Keybinding for copying selections on matching substrings vertically
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