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If you delete one “word” you see that the “word” is gone, what other visual confirmation would are you desiring?
by jodrellblank 3y ago
If you delete one “word” you see that the “word” is gone, what other visual confirmation would are you desiring?
- fargle 3y agoexactly! and if it did the wrong thing after all, just undo.
- wodenokoto 3y agoKnowing what word you are about to delete. As sibling mentions typing w4 will highlight and then finishing the motion with d will delete in other editors like kakoune.
- jodrellblank 3y agoYou can do that in Vim with visual mode: v4w to highlight and then d to delete.
- eviks 3y agoSo then what's your argument: you don't need feedback or you do, and it's already in vim?
- jodrellblank 3y agoMy main argument would be I don't understand multiple cursors unless there's a lot of identical lines which need prefixing or suffixing (and regex can do that). Vim lets you select stuff before acting on it, so "wanting to select stuff before acting on it" doesn't seem like a good reason to leave Vim. Although in practise I rarely use that.