martanne
Cannot repeat shift with .
Problem
If you select multiple lines with shift-v and then j, pressing < produces the expected left shift. But trying to repeat the shift with '.' fails -- nothing happens. The same is true of >.
Steps to reproduce
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vis version (vis -v)
vis 0.9 +curses +lua +tre +ac
Terminal name/version
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$TERM environment variable
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The question is whether left shift should be included in the operations covered by dot-repeat. Does manpage says anything about this? Which operations are covered by nvi/Berkeley-vi?
@rnpnr any thoughts?
Its a bug in my view. I find it quite annoying that doing this exact operation (specifically <) clears the selection and is not repeatable. Re-indenting a block of code is a very common operation and this is the most obvious way to do it. Note that it if you select in parentheses (e.g. vi{) and then use < the selection does not clear but . doesn't work.
Conceptually I don't see why 'repeat the last editor command' wouldn't apply to </>.
This works in vim and nvim and is extremely useful.
The dot command is defined as repeating changes (see vim and nvim docs and :help). Shifting in either direction is a change.
Having this change repeatable is very useful (at least in my work flow) and also more consistent (as all other changes seem to be repeatable using .).
I'm also in favor of changing the behavior (or is it fixing a bug?) in this case.
