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msomeone / PeasyMotion

Visual Studio 2017 2019 2022 Extension, emulating vim-easymotion word-motion text navigation mode.
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Q: What is `gS` in VsVim sample mappings? #13

Closed adam-c-anderson closed 4 years ago

adam-c-anderson commented 4 years ago

VsVim sample mappings include ones like this

nnoremap <Space> gS:vsc Tools.InvokePeasyMotion<CR>

As an intermediate Vimmer, I do not recognize the purpose of the gS portion of the mapped command. It's not documented, seems to behave only as S when executed in normal mode, and the mapping works the same without it AFAICT. What is gS for?

msomeone commented 4 years ago

It's actually for ViEmu compatibility, VsVim should do good without gS, but wonder if gS actually does something when used in VsVim. So i've kept gS there, because there is no need to duplicate mapping examples for VsVim and ViEmu separately. Sorry for confusing, maybe i should clarify this in mapping example comment line.

Here is part of ViEmu documentation for ref: "An alternative if you want to use ViEmu's "emulated" selection, and you still need to go into VS-selection mode from time to time is to use the gS command when you need to do the conversion (this only lasts until the next ViEmu keypress)."

adam-c-anderson commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the clarification! I agree an explanation in the comment line would be helpful.

msomeone commented 4 years ago

Done! Thanks for reporting