On Wed, 2021-12-22 at 22:08 +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Adding «-N» to both select-a-shell-word calls does the trick.
Thanks, that fixed it! I do still think it's pretty strange, though,
because select-a-shell-word does not normally seem to respond to the
numeric argument in a command like `v3aa` (still only selects one
word).
> While here, you can simplify the function a bit. For one, you could
> use
> a «repeat» loop — its repeat count is a math expression, so you can
> actually do «repeat "NUMERIC - 1"; do …; done»
Nice, thanks for pointing that out.
> — but I'm not sure why you
> select-a-shell-word more than once. Why not just this:
>
> select-n-shell-word() {
> CURSOR=0
> repeat "${NUMERIC:-1} - 1" zle vi-forward-word
> zle visual-mode
> zle select-a-shell-word -N
> }
I want to select the nth argument on the command line, taking into
account spaces, so using vi-forward-word is not a good choice. For
example, on the command `echo "these are all one" third` I want
3:select-n-shell-word to select
echo "these are all one"[ third]
not
echo[ "these are all one"] third
> «CURSOR=0» is not equivalent to «zle vi-beginning-of-line» when
> there's
> a literal newline in $BUFFER. Pick what you prefer.
Oops, thank you for that as well.
I appreciate all the help! It's working perfectly now.
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