Re: wanted: viins-mode and digit argument with a,i,A and such

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 17,  6:33pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: wanted: viins-mode and digit argument with a,i,A and such
}
} > } > when i use bindkey -e, i can insert one character 10 times with
} > } > ESC 10 <character>.
} > } > 
} > } > With vi one normally uses something like 10i<character>.
} > } > This is not possible with ZSH ( bindkey -v set ).
} > } 
} > } If you are using 3.1, try a widget like [...]
} > 
} > I generally agree with the new philosophy of not adding things as builtins
} > that can be done as widgets, but this is so unbelievably trivial and so
} > completely general that I have no idea why we shouldn't do it:
} 
} This isn't quite how vi handles it, however.

True, but it is how your read-and-insert-char widget handles it.

} It would wait till you hit escape, then insert everything you typed
} that many times. That would need more work.

Yes; I have a vague idea that it could be done by stashing away a copy
of the zmod structure, and then upon ESC you restore it, decrement the
zmult field, and invoke virepeatchange() ... the tricky bit could be
interaction with the `lastmod' copy of zmod that startvichange() uses.
Or maybe lastmod already contains almost everything we need ...

} Plus in zsh there are other ways of exiting insert mode than
} returning to command mode --- what should happen on `return'?

The same thing that happens now when you type e.g. `8 d RET' -- it just
accepts the buffer as it stands, aborting the repeat.

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