[implementations-list] partially function application and prefix keys for Vi commands that take movement commands as arguments

Tue Oct 13 10:15:03 CEST 2009

I saw that in July, people were talking about alternative ways to
program commands like "d" that take other commands (like "w") as
arguments. Here's another proposal; make "d" a prefix key, and bind
"d"->"w" to a partially applied "delete-cmd" function, with its first
argument fixed to 'viper-forward-word. Use Elisp functions to create
these bindings en masse, to remove the tedium of explicitly writing
out bindings for each pair of movement command and
movement-argument-taking command.

Attached is elisp code that demonstrates this.

The advantage is that you work within emacs's keymap system rather
than replacing it. Apologies if this has already been discussed.