[vim/vim] Make :center work on visual selections (Issue #16295)
My Arcana
Is your feature request about something that is currently impossible or hard to do? Please describe the problem.
Yes it's very hard to center text selections in vim at the moment
Describe the solution you'd like
w h sa sb sl sr ....
width | | 1 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 |
height | | 0 1 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 |
space_above | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
space_below | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
space_left | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
space_right | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
... | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
CTRL-V selecting the first column and entering the command :'<,'>center should center the column not the lines
Describe alternatives you've considered
- Writing my own centering function in Vim
- writing my own script to center lines and putting it in my path
Neither of these solutions are trivial sadly. I think basic text manipulation like this should be part of Vim in the first place.
Vim provides :center, it just doesn't center anything except lines, even if you've made a visual selection.
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Christian Brabandt
Closed #16295 as not planned.
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Christian Brabandt
ex commands always work linewise. There is already an issue for, to make it work column wise using e.g. `< marker value. But so far, this does not exist. It's part of the todo list and there is an issue about it already (sorry don't find it currently), so I am closing this as duplicate
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Christian Brabandt
Here it is: #3292
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