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> Another story is that some people pointed out a missing feature - moving lines or blocks of text up and down, as more advanced IDEs do. I volunteered to imple
by TwentyPosts 4y ago
> Another story is that some people pointed out a missing feature - moving lines or blocks of text up and down, as more advanced IDEs do. I volunteered to implement this feature, however I'm getting impression that the community is a bit puristic when it comes to features like that, based on feedback I get.
Wait, what does this add? I feel like in Helix I would just select a bunch of lines (say, via treesitter or the x command), and then I'd delete them, and paste them somewhere else. Could you elaborate what the difference is between this and 'moving lines or blocks of text up and down'?
- sir_eliah 4y agoYeah, you can use registers or the system clipboard, however this takes more actions and puts stuff into your clipboard history. Maybe it's just my way of working, but I move lines above or below when reorganizing lists in markdown or other basic text operations. For me it's as useful IDE feature as multiple cursors and in fact I often use them together. All the major IDEs like sublime/jetbrains/vscode have both of these functionalities.