Add object for an entire function call

[languitar]

In case I have a function call defined across multiple lines, is there any mapping to select the entire call? Otherwise, I would like to have such a text object.

[bps]

Can you provide an example? If it's something like

foo(bar,
    baz,
    quux)

how about doing e.g. va)ob within the parens to get a visual selection?

[languitar]

Yes, that's the case. That is just a horribly long shortcut and to my mind it would make sense to have something language-specific inside here. Also for people to actually find the right shortcut ;)

[languitar]

Oh, and additionally, this doesn't work if there is an embedded function call. I might end up selecting only that one.

[bps]

Yeah, you're screwed if you have embedded function calls. This is also the reason why it's not possible to do it right with regular expressions. :smile:

I'm not sure I've needed this. I'm open to taking a patch, but I think the current kludgy approach the rest of the plugin uses isn't going to apply.

Have you looked at https://github.com/terryma/vim-expand-region for doing something similar? It's a more general approach?

[languitar]

I didn't look at expand-region so far.

I am using this to send portions of code to ipython using vim-slime. And since I often have to reuse certain lines of code for experimentation, such a feature would be very handy.