Add command to merge non-consecutive ranges #7053
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Heeded the advice of @the-mikedavis to stop iterating over all ranges and simply merge the first and the last range, as the invariants of `Selection` guarantee that the list of ranges is always sorted and never empty.
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* Add command for merging non-consecutive ranges * Add `merge_selections` command to book * Simplify `merge_ranges` Heeded the advice of @the-mikedavis to stop iterating over all ranges and simply merge the first and the last range, as the invariants of `Selection` guarantee that the list of ranges is always sorted and never empty. * Clarify doc comment of `merge_ranges`
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* Add command for merging non-consecutive ranges * Add `merge_selections` command to book * Simplify `merge_ranges` Heeded the advice of @the-mikedavis to stop iterating over all ranges and simply merge the first and the last range, as the invariants of `Selection` guarantee that the list of ranges is always sorted and never empty. * Clarify doc comment of `merge_ranges`
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* Add command for merging non-consecutive ranges * Add `merge_selections` command to book * Simplify `merge_ranges` Heeded the advice of @the-mikedavis to stop iterating over all ranges and simply merge the first and the last range, as the invariants of `Selection` guarantee that the list of ranges is always sorted and never empty. * Clarify doc comment of `merge_ranges`
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* Add command for merging non-consecutive ranges * Add `merge_selections` command to book * Simplify `merge_ranges` Heeded the advice of @the-mikedavis to stop iterating over all ranges and simply merge the first and the last range, as the invariants of `Selection` guarantee that the list of ranges is always sorted and never empty. * Clarify doc comment of `merge_ranges`
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* Add command for merging non-consecutive ranges * Add `merge_selections` command to book * Simplify `merge_ranges` Heeded the advice of @the-mikedavis to stop iterating over all ranges and simply merge the first and the last range, as the invariants of `Selection` guarantee that the list of ranges is always sorted and never empty. * Clarify doc comment of `merge_ranges`
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* Add command for merging non-consecutive ranges * Add `merge_selections` command to book * Simplify `merge_ranges` Heeded the advice of @the-mikedavis to stop iterating over all ranges and simply merge the first and the last range, as the invariants of `Selection` guarantee that the list of ranges is always sorted and never empty. * Clarify doc comment of `merge_ranges`
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Situations may arise in which you want to extend your selection up to a search result, or simply select everything between two or more cursors.
Currently there is no mechanism for this other than badly abusing
goto_last_modificationas a poor man's mark.1merge_selectionscombines all current ranges into a single range spanning from the first selection in the buffer to the last.Now you can search in visual mode for the token you want to select up to, then hit
Alt-minus(sinceAlt-_could already merge consecutive selections).helix_merge_ranges_macro_demo.webm
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