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[spf13]

I love vim-wordy. I actually started writing my own, but came across yours and promptly threw mine away. Well done.

Here's some things I wish Wordy did better.

1. The command names are kinda random, or at least they seem to be and I have a hard time remembering them. I wish that Wordy was the prefix instead of the postfix so I could just type :Wordy<tab> and see the list
2. I wish there was a single dictionary or command that contained the most common or all of modes. I often run through a few of them correcting as I go, but I'd rather just do it in one sweep.

I'm happy to provide a pull request for either of these if you think they would be worthwhile.

[reedes]

Hey Steve, glad to hear you find Wordy useful.

Regarding command names, I had originally named them with a Wordy prefix, but I found myself annoyed at having to type so deeply to find a specific one. So I opted for unique names which would require only a few keystrokes, but I understand that memorization is required.

As a short term solution, aliases with Wordy as the prefix are fine by me. Send a pull request and I'll get it merged.

Regarding a single dictionary or command, there's an experimental CreativeWordy command that focuses on a subset of word lists relevant to creative writing. However, the down side is that it's not clear why a particular word or phrase is highlighted. Thus I haven't promoted its use or made other multi-list targets.

Perhaps the dictionaries could be available in a ring, where the dictionary name could appear in the status bar (or an echo) as the user uses a key-mapping to rapidly cycle among them?

[mattly]

@spf13 fwiw I had taken a stab at consolidating the wordy dictionaries into something that could be used to generate a quickfix list, highlighting all the various problem types in one pass with descriptions of why, but my naive algorithm turned out to be horrendously slow. In the process I learned that without the context of why something is highlighted, the highlighting is very unhelpful.

I think the quickfix list would be an ideal format for highlighting these sorts of problems, especially since it could provide a bit more context, but I think getting reasonable performance out of a processor will require a concerted effort.

[reedes]

Started implementing the ring idea on a new code branch.

It seems to work quite well, providing context as an echo. See Issue #2 for details.

[reedes]

Ring feature merged. Please give it a shot -- it could prove more useful than entering the commands directly.

[ghost]

Hi, I'm not sure if you're still interested in adding the Wordy prefixed aliases to the plugin but I've submitted a PR with the change I've been using. I still think I'll use the new ring feature most of the time but it's good to use Wordy<tab> to jog my memory for specific commands. I agree it's nice to have the unique names as well for running commands quickly.

Thank you for taking the time to make this plugin, it's great!

[reedes]

Completion feature for new Wordy {dictname} command added. Deprecated the DictNameWordy commands for the reasons stated above as well as because they pose a problem for localization plans.

Note that the WordyDictName approach would also be language-specific, so it has the same problem.

Closing.