Bindable action for character insert/typing?

[p0358]

There are bindable actions like

InsertSpace
InsertTab
InsertNewline

but I could not find anything like InsertCharacter that would work for typing anything other than space, tabs and newlines? Is there a suitable event I don't see yet or could something like this be added?

[pbsds]

Adding to this on this, InsertSpace is listed in help/keybindings.md, but produces an error if bound on v2.0.3

[Gavin-Holt]

Hi,

Reviewing the open issues with inserting characters, can I suggest a Lua function:

function Insert(Current,item)                
    if type(item)=="string" then
        Current.Cursor:DeleteSelection()
        Current.Buf:Insert(editor_GetTextLoc(Current), item)
    end
end
-- Dependent upon:
function editor_GetTextLoc(Current) 
-- Returns Loc-tuple w/ current marked text or whole line (begin, end)
-- From https://github.com/NicolaiSoeborg/manipulator-plugin/blob/master/manipulator.lua
    local a, b = nil, nil
    if editor.HasSelection(Current) then
        if Current.Cursor.CurSelection[1]:GreaterThan(-Current.Cursor.CurSelection[2]) then
            a, b = Current.Cursor.CurSelection[2], Current.Cursor.CurSelection[1]
        else
            a, b = Current.Cursor.CurSelection[1], Current.Cursor.CurSelection[2]
        end
    else
        local eol = string.len(Current.Buf:Line(Current.Cursor.Loc.Y))
        a, b = Current.Cursor.Loc, buffer.Loc(eol, Current.Cursor.Y)
    end
    return buffer.Loc(a.X, a.Y), buffer.Loc(b.X, b.Y)
end

This can be used with spaces (" "), tabs ("\t"), newline ("\n") or any string.

Lua functions are bound in the usual way - depending upon which file you store them inside.

However, Lua functions will not work with multicursor selections, unlike proper Go actions defined in the source - which execute at each cursor.

Hope this helps and we can close these issues?

Kind Regards Gavin Holt