Re: programmatically determine blockwise visual mode

Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Hi Charles!
>
> On Fr, 04 Dez 2015, Charles E Campbell wrote:
>
>> Christian Brabandt wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> let's say I have script, that wants to work on the last visually
>>> selected region, e.g. highlight it.
>>>
>>> Is there any way, to find out, whether the last block-wise selected
>>> region used '$' for selection (see :h v_$) or not? This matters, since
>>> when using the '$' in visual block mode, all lines up to the end will be
>>> selected, while when simply using the cursor to select the end point,
>>> only up to the column specified in the last line will be acted on.
>>>
>> I have a solution of sorts; please try the attached file with its
>> IsRaggedRight() function.
>>
>> Potential Improvement: test all lines in the range instead of just the
>> first and last
>>
>> Caveat: if the user has selected lines that are of equal lengths, then
>> IsRaggedRight() will return 0 (even though $ was not used).
> Thanks. Interesting idea. But if i am not mistaken, this will fail, if
> there are tabs in front of the visual selction.
Using virtcol() rather than col() would help with this.
>
> My current idea is to map a key like this:
> xmap <silent><expr> key ":\<c-u>let g:curswant=".getcurpos()[4]."\n"
> and then run :norm gvkey
>
> This works, but is slightly clumsy...
>
> Made me think, if visualmode should perhaps return '^V$' in this special
> case?
>
Perhaps -- but that would be a change that would affect plugins that
would expect a ^V for visual mode, irregardless, thereby causing them to
fail.

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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