Kakoune – A Modal Text Editor

Re:Kakoune – A Modal Text Editor by clarry on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @03:26AM (#19317244)

I don't think the the two endpoints are that big of a deal. I know where I want to start selecting, so I can just navigate there and then expand the selection in one direction only. This is how it works with vi anyway, only you can't really expand the selection after the fact.

In the rare case case when I miss the mark, I wouldn't mind pressing an extra key to move the cursor to the other end of the selection and expand from there.

And yeah I feel that dissatisfaction too.

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Re:Kakoune – A Modal Text Editor by greggyb on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @09:24AM (#19319091)

That extra key is o in vim's visual mode. It moves the cursor to the other end of the selection

With the text below, your cursor is the pipe character. From the cursor position, in normal mode, press 'vjok'

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