"C-r" in visual mode "r" command

Fri Sep 23 23:39:15 CEST 2011

> I *have* tried this scenario and the result is exactly what I wrote -
> at least on my Vim and my Emacs 23.2.1.

I just tried it with "make emacs" and it worked as what you said, so obviously
something is wrong with my configuration, I apologize for that.

> Anyhow the behaviour you request is a non-trivial issue because it interferes
> with the fact that "r" expects a character and not a command. After pressing
> "r" and when waiting for that character evil is *not* in insert-state so *no*
> insert state binding is active. It is certainly possible to get the behavior
> you desire but it needs work. Furthermore the behavior in many situations has
> to be worked out:
>
> What should happen if more than one column is selected? Replace each
> single character by the yanked text (i.e. multiple copies of the yanked
> text are inserted per line, one per character) or should the whole line
> be replaced?
>
> What should happen if the yanked text is line-wise or even a block
> itself?

Yes, it's not trivial at all and may not be worth the effort, especially when
there is workaround: select block -> "d" -> select block -> "I" -> "C-r "" to
achieve what I wanted.

>> What you said is what is working in Vim, not what is working
>> currently in Evil, however, I think what is working in Evil is even
>> better and more useful. I hope you are not going to follow Vim this
>> time, and I believe Evil has done better than Vim in this matter and
>> I don't think we have to always blindly follow Vim even when we know
>> it is not good in the specific situation.
>>
>> If you guy's decide not to follow Vim here, than making "C-r" work in
>> this situation will be even better.
>
> I welcome any ideas to get evil better than vim, but I currently have
> no idea for a robust behavior of the feature you want. But feel free
> to provide one ...

Since what is working on my system is different from that in standard Evil of
course you have no idea about what I was saying. Sorry about that.

York