line text object

[hirschenberger]

We have all kinds of obscure text objects like paragraphs, functions, arguments... but it seems that a line textobject is a natural and useful extension.

Assumed that l is the letter for line (which is still available), you could do things like mild to clear a line, mald to delete a line, milms} to put brackets around the current line.

I know all of this can be done with other key-combos, but they all seem like hacks or workarounds and are not as intuitive.

e.g. do clear a line: xdO<esc>, xvhd or x_d.

[pascalkuthe]

duplicate of #4234, both X and X_ already work and are easy enough to use.

Note that we also don't have a formal RFC process (#8853 is an experiment and something like this is only intended major design changes not minor keymap changes)

[hirschenberger]

So as #4234 is an open issue, is that a thing that would be accepted as a PR? Then I'd give it a try.

[the-mikedavis]

It seems unnecessary to me to have this re-implemented as a text-object: it's already implemented as extend_to_line_bounds or ["extend_to_line_bounds", "trim_selections"], or whatever the equivalent keys are for the ]/[ parts (https://github.com/Delapouite/kakoune-text-objects/blob/da9a268c3f239e40e0ca4665faa17f709563795b/text-objects.kak#L44-L62 in kakoune). Rather I'd like to see it be possible to add or change text-object bindings which are currently hardcoded in select_textobject_inner/select_textobject_around.

That isn't as straightforward as it seems though (like in #4287) since the fall-through behavior for "whatever character is typed next" isn't currently mappable.