Put delete-right command in register _ (blackhole)

[tobiasandersen]

Hi, thanks for the amazing work you've done here, I'm incredibly impressed!

I'm trying to put the delete-right (i.e. the x key) command's deleted character into the _ (blackhole) register. I've tried modifying the example in this guide, but without any luck. Could you point me in the right direction?

Thanks again!

[PaulPorfiroff]

@tobiasandersen, I was doing similar customizations and got some troubles with copy pasted code. Here's a hotfix for an issue you might have come across:

consumeService = (packageName, providerName, fn) ->
  # Test if package has already been activated
  if atom.packages.isPackageActive(packageName)
    pack = atom.packages.getActivePackage(packageName)
    service = pack.mainModule[providerName]()
    fn(service)
    return

  disposable = atom.packages.onDidActivatePackage (pack) ->
    if pack.name is packageName
      service = pack.mainModule[providerName]()
      fn(service)
      disposable.dispose()

If that didn't help, then I guess showing your init script, keymap and config would clean things up a bit.

[t9md]

@tobiasandersen

You want to delete by x without mutating register right? For that purpose, as you are understanding, use blackhole register(_). Most straight forward way to do this is use this tips.

https://github.com/t9md/atom-vim-mode-plus/wiki/TIPS#delete-without-saving-to-register

After that when you type \ x , you can do x without updating register.

Don't like two keystroke? then paste this into your init.coffee and restart Atom. Good luck!!

consumeService = (packageName, providerName, fn) ->
  disposable = atom.packages.onDidActivatePackage (pack) ->
    if pack.name is packageName
      service = pack.mainModule[providerName]()
      fn(service)
      disposable.dispose()

consumeService 'vim-mode-plus', 'provideVimModePlus', (service) ->
  {Base} = service
  DeleteRight = Base.getClass('DeleteRight')
  class DeleteRightWithBackholeRegister extends DeleteRight
    @commandPrefix: 'vim-mode-plus-user'
    @registerCommand()
    execute: ->
      @vimState.register.setName('_')
      super

[t9md]

@PaulPorfiroff you need to workaround the package-already-activated situation?

I haven't hit that situation ever. My consumeService definition never failed so want to make sure what wasn't work in your environment.

[PaulPorfiroff]

@t9md, yeah, did-activate-package event didn't fire in my case.

My environment is listed below.

Don't know if that's the cause, but paul-porfiroff-utils package is throwing exception on activation, as I left some work partially done and uncommented. Will fix it now and try again, though I don't think that's a real excuse for an issue.

Atom version:

$ atom-beta --version
Atom    : 1.13.0-beta8
Electron: 1.3.13
Chrome  : 52.0.2743.82
Node    : 6.5.0

Installed packages:

$ apm list
Built-in Atom Packages (89)
├── about@1.5.2
├── archive-view@0.61.1
├── atom-dark-syntax@0.27.0
├── atom-dark-ui@0.51.0
├── atom-light-syntax@0.28.0
├── atom-light-ui@0.43.0
├── autocomplete-atom-api@0.10.0
├── autocomplete-css@0.11.1
├── autocomplete-html@0.7.2
├── autocomplete-plus@2.31.0
├── autocomplete-snippets@1.11.0
├── autoflow@0.27.0
├── autosave@0.23.1
├── background-tips@0.26.0
├── base16-tomorrow-dark-theme@1.1.0
├── base16-tomorrow-light-theme@1.1.1
├── bookmarks@0.41.0
├── bracket-matcher@0.82.1
├── command-palette@0.38.0
├── deprecation-cop@0.54.1
├── dev-live-reload@0.47.0
├── encoding-selector@0.22.0
├── exception-reporting@0.38.1
├── find-and-replace@0.198.0
├── fuzzy-finder@1.3.0
├── git-diff@1.1.0
├── go-to-line@0.31.0
├── grammar-selector@0.48.1
├── image-view@0.58.0
├── incompatible-packages@0.26.1
├── keybinding-resolver@0.35.0
├── language-c@0.52.1
├── language-clojure@0.21.0
├── language-coffee-script@0.47.0
├── language-csharp@0.12.1
├── language-css@0.36.2
├── language-gfm@0.86.0
├── language-git@0.13.0
├── language-go@0.42.0
├── language-html@0.44.1
├── language-hyperlink@0.16.0
├── language-java@0.22.0
├── language-javascript@0.119.0
├── language-json@0.18.0
├── language-less@0.29.3
├── language-make@0.22.2
├── language-mustache@0.13.0
├── language-objective-c@0.15.1
├── language-perl@0.35.0
├── language-php@0.37.0
├── language-property-list@0.8.0
├── language-python@0.45.0
├── language-ruby@0.68.5
├── language-ruby-on-rails@0.25.0
├── language-sass@0.52.0
├── language-shellscript@0.22.3
├── language-source@0.9.0
├── language-sql@0.21.1
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├── language-toml@0.18.0
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├── language-yaml@0.26.0
├── line-ending-selector@0.5.0
├── link@0.31.1
├── markdown-preview@0.158.0
├── metrics@0.53.1
├── notifications@0.64.1
├── one-dark-syntax@1.2.0
├── one-dark-ui@1.3.2
├── one-light-syntax@1.2.0
├── one-light-ui@1.3.2
├── open-on-github@1.2.0
├── package-generator@1.0.0
├── settings-view@0.238.0
├── snippets@1.0.2
├── solarized-dark-syntax@1.0.2
├── solarized-light-syntax@1.0.2
├── spell-check@0.67.1
├── status-bar@1.4.0
├── styleguide@0.46.0
├── symbols-view@0.113.0
├── tabs@0.98.0
├── timecop@0.33.1
├── tree-view@0.208.0
├── update-package-dependencies@0.10.0
├── welcome@0.34.0
├── whitespace@0.32.2
└── wrap-guide@0.38.1

Dev Packages (4) /home/paulporfiroff/.atom/dev/packages
├── atom-hot-package-loader@0.5.1
├── language-tiddlywiki5@0.3.0
├── mix-selections@0.0.1
└── tiddlywiki5-tools@0.1.0

Community Packages (29) /home/paulporfiroff/.atom/packages
├── Termrk@0.3.1
├── atom-beautify@0.29.16
├── atom-hot-package-loader@0.5.1
├── atom-remove-keybindings-collisions@0.1.0
├── atomic-chrome@0.3.0
├── docblockr@0.9.1
├── editorconfig@2.2.0
├── expand-region@0.2.6
├── indent-helper@0.2.0
├── language-pug@0.0.19
├── language-tiddlywiki5@0.3.0
├── language-ts@1.0.2
├── linter@1.11.21
├── linter-coffeelint@1.2.1
├── linter-eslint@8.0.0
├── linter-tslint@0.13.1
├── live-archive@0.1.15
├── open-plus@0.10.1
├── open-recent@5.0.0
├── paner@0.4.0
├── paul-porfiroff-utils@0.0.0
├── permute@0.1.1
├── project-manager@3.3.3
├── quick-highlight@0.8.1
├── remove-all-keybindings@0.2.0
├── theme-switch@0.4.0
├── todo-show@1.9.0
├── vim-mode-plus@0.80.0
└── vmp-gutter-annotate-mark@0.3.2

└── (empty)

config.cson:

"*":
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    transitionDuration: 0
  "atom-beautify":
    coffeescript:
      end_with_newline: true
      indent_size: 2
      max_preserve_newlines: 2
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      selector_separator_newline: true
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      beautifyEntireFileOnSave: false
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      max_preserve_newlines: 2
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    cmdArgs: "--exclude=@.ctagsignore"
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      "align-regexp"
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    projectHome: "~/Projects"
    telemetryConsent: "no"
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      "File"
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    hideTabBarOnMaximizePane: false
    incrementalSearch: true
    showHoverSearchCounter: true
    statusBarModeStringStyle: "long"
    stayOnDelete: true
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    stayOnYank: true
    useClipboardAsDefaultRegister: true
    wrapLeftRightMotion: true
  whitespace:
    ignoreWhitespaceOnCurrentLine: false
    removeTrailingWhitespace: true
".gfm.source":
  editor:
    softWrap: true
    softWrapAtPreferredLineLength: true
".tw5":
  whitespace:
    removeTrailingWhitespace: false

[PaulPorfiroff]

Welp, as stupid as it is, disabling my package causing an error notification made things work fine. Still don't think that's an excuse.

[t9md]

So when you paste on your init.coffee then it show true on chrome dev console?

console.log atom.packages.isPackageActive('vim-mode-plus')

You are using macOS?

Btw, 1.13 is already become stable and current bate is 1.14. better to update.:smile:

[PaulPorfiroff]

So when you paste

Yes, that's an output if I put it into consumeService() in init script.

You are using macOS?

No, I use openSUSE Leap 42.2 here.

Btw, 1.13 is already become stable and current bate is 1.14. better to update.

You're right, not always catching up with the newest versions. Will try to reproduce this thing after update, cause that really an issue (unexpected behaviour) of Atom, not your init code in guide.

[t9md]

OK thanks, activation possible to comes BEFORE init.coffee evaluation?. Not sure, package activation is done as promise, so packges.activagte() return immediately. So I thought init.coffee processed BEFORE vmp activation.

Anyway I'll update consumeService utility on wiki to save situation you suffered.

[PaulPorfiroff]

So I thought init.coffee processed BEFORE vmp activation.

Yeah, expected that too.

Anyway I'll update consumeService utility on wiki to save situation you suffered.

Thanks.

[t9md]

Updated consumeService utility on wiki here.

https://github.com/t9md/atom-vim-mode-plus/wiki/ExtendVimModePlusInInitFile#overview

[PaulPorfiroff]

I've just updated my atoms and both, 1.13.0 and 1.14.0-beta2, work as expected with original consumeService() even if my package throwing an exception is enabled. So, for newer versions there seem to be no issue anymore.

[t9md]

OK, thanks for checking. Anyway taking care of already-activated situation seems no harm and worth to know. So thanks!

[tobiasandersen]

Thanks for the help, but I'm still unable to get this working. I think we're talking about the same thing, but just to clarify:

If I stand on the first character of a line and do yy, followed by " _ x, the first character will disappear, but the next time I press e.g. p, the whole line will be pasted.

This is what I want as the default behavior for x. So if I did the exact same thing, but instead of " _ x, I just do x, I'd expect the same result.

I removed everything in my init.coffee except those to blocks you gave me. What's a good way to troubleshoot this?

[PaulPorfiroff]

@tobiasandersen, have you remapped x key to the new 'vim-mode-plus-user:delete-right-with-backhole-register' command? Try running it from the Command Palette directly.

[t9md]

@tobiasandersen Ya, we are talking about SAME thing, and your expectation is correct. For troubleshoot, follow @PaulPorfiroff 's instruction.

[tobiasandersen]

Oh, I'm new to Atom and didn't even understand this created a new command. Mapping it in my keymap solved it, thanks for your help guys!

[t9md]

Finally you did it and learned how atom-keymap system works, congrats 🎉 !!

[snide]

Sorry to add to the noise. This used to work for me (many months ago), but I think @t9md removed the blackhole register commands to use a more generic system. I'm able to get a \ d map to delete without yanking, but I can no longer get a plain d to delete without the yank. Is there a new way to handle this then the way described above?

[t9md]

@snide

I updated wiki for TIPS and linked custom operation to be more explicit(and also fixed some bug).

https://github.com/t9md/atom-vim-mode-plus/wiki/TIPS#delete-without-saving-to-register

Does this make sense to you?

[snide]

@t9md Yes. I sent you an edit for the wiki (to clear up some wording) as well as some bountysource love. Thank you for maintaining this fantastic plugin.

[t9md]

WOW, Thank you for wording fix and bounty! 😍